An Unrequited Botanical Love Story
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
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The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
In February 1906, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Britton, founders of The New York…
The establishment of The New York Botanical Garden was the result of…
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Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
Botanists and dogs make good companions in the field. Dogs provide companionship, warn…
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
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Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), was the first curator of the Bailey Hortorium…
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…
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In early March of this year Chicita Culberson, whose work has been…
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Blanche Ames Ames (February 18, 1878 – March 2, 1969) was not…