John Torrey
John Torrey (1796-1873) is considered one of the most influential American botanists…
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John Torrey (1796-1873) is considered one of the most influential American botanists…
Major William Rich was selected to be the botanist on the U. S.…
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
Highly respected among her male peers in the 18th century, Jane Colden…
Recently walking on the NYBG grounds on a lovely spring day just…
Elgin Botanic Garden was the first public botanical garden in the United…
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Roberto Burle Marx was an artist, a landscape architect and an early…
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A beloved member of the NYBG community for over 40 years, Carol…
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze was a german botanist who made expeditions to every…
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…
Dr. Thomas Walter Gaither (1938 - ) was born in Great Falls, South…
Mostly remembered for his experimental music compositions, John Cage was also a…
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Prince Henri of Orléans, a French royal, collected this parasitic fungi in Tibet while…
Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield (1875–1949) was a promising young mycologist at the…
“Whenever rains, swollen streams, and grumbling Indians combined to overwhelm me with…
William Murrill became an assistant curator at NYBG in 1904, and was…
Those who have read Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Unsheltered, will be familiar with the…
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…