Women in Cryptogamic Botany
As scientific perspectives of the Enlightenment movement fostered enthusiasm surrounding the acquisition…
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As scientific perspectives of the Enlightenment movement fostered enthusiasm surrounding the acquisition…
Josephine Elizabeth Tilden (1869-1957) was one of few women allowed a faculty…
The work and dedication of Elke Mackenzie (1911-1990) is critical to our…
Clara E. Cummings (1855-1906) was a cryptogamic botanist who focused primarily on…
Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872-1952) was an American mycologist who specialized in the…
When the Garden began a series of expeditions to the Caribbean during…
Elizabeth Knight Britton’s grandfather James Knight owned a sugar plantation and a…
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton’s career as a bryologist and her central role…
Elizabeth Knight Britton went on to complete her schooling at the Normal…
In early March of this year Chicita Culberson, whose work has been…
Noris Salazar-Allen, acclaimed researcher and bryologist, studies the group of non-vascular plants…
Dra. Gabriela Gustava Hässel de Menéndez’s scientific career spanned almost sixty years…
Laura Guzmán-Dávalos’ explorations into the world of fungi are vast and far-reaching,…
Dr. Lidia Itatí Ferraro, born in 1951, is an accomplished Argentine lichenologist.…
A social worker and Sierra Club member at the time, Ynés Mexia…
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Blanche Ames Ames (February 18, 1878 – March 2, 1969) was not…
Before Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott became the first Native Hawaiian woman to…
Geraldine Watson, born in Louisiana in 1925, never planned to become a…