A Botanical Tour of Harlem
The New York City neighborhood of Harlem is a center for Black…
Addisonia
Addisonia: Colored Illustrations and Popular Descriptions of Plants was a journal published by…
An Unrequited Botanical Love Story
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
Augustine Henry
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Bean-boozled
Cosmopolitan has a long-standing journalistic reputation for getting straight to the heart…
Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience
Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience seeks to acknowledge the complex…
Britton's Chara
In the United States, there is no formal regulation for the endangered…
Damaged by enemy action
Herbarium specimens are windows into the past and can help us answer…
David Hosack's Elgin Botanic Garden
Elgin Botanic Garden was the first public botanical garden in the United…
Discovering a Darwin Collection
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
Elizabeth Britton and the Curly-Grass Fern
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
Ellen Hutchins - Ireland's First Female Botanist
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
Ellen's Algae
See more of Ellen Hutchin's beautifully detailed marine algae collections.
Ellen's Illustrations
We know Ellen Hutchins produced hundreds of detailed watercolors of marine algae. Some…
Ellen's Types
Among many of the interesting things Ellen Hutchins collected were collections that…
Exploring the Bahamas with Lewis Jones Knight Brace
The Bahamas suffered its worst natural disaster recently as Hurricane Dorian, a…
Flora Borinqueña
In February 1906, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Britton, founders of The New York…
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
Good grief, Charles Geyer
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
J. K. Small's exploration in Southern Florida, 1915
John Kunkel Small, botanist and herbarium curator at the the New York Botanical…
Jeanne Baret
CollectorsWomen in ScienceExpeditions
Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
John Kunkel Small
John Kunkel Small (1869-1938) was a taxonomist and botanical explorer, who specialized…
John Muir
John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential naturalist and conservationist, and co-founder of the…
John Torrey
John Torrey (1796-1873) is considered one of the most influential American botanists…
John Torrey’s Trip to California and Colorado, 1872
In July of 1872, John Torrey and his daughter Margaret departed on…
Journey of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
One of the earliest and most impactful scientific expeditions led by the…
Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine
Catherine Furbish was born in 1834 in Exeter, New Hampshire. From an…
Mary Emily Eaton
Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…
Mary Treat
Those who have read Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Unsheltered, will be familiar with the…
Milestones
Since its inception NYBG has focused on building an extensive and valuable herbarium…
Myanmar Mystery Solved
Working in a Herbarium sometimes requires detective work. This Myanmar mystery started…
NAACP member J. E. Spingarn and the Clematis…
Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 - July 26, 1939) was a…
Newspaper time capsule: B. Maguire 23559
A trip to the field isn't always necessary to describe a new…
Oro City – A Colorado Ghost Town
Oro City was a gold placer (stream-bed) mining town in Colorado, founded…
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze was a german botanist who made expeditions to every…