Pertusaria andersoniae
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Some of our herbarium specimens are of incredibly rare species. This is…
Mary Treat
Those who have read Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Unsheltered, will be familiar with the…
Women's Scientific Empowerment
Natural history was immensely popular in the Victorian era, but women were…
A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
Mary Emily Eaton
Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Ellen's Types
Among many of the interesting things Ellen Hutchins collected were collections that…
The Lemmons: Partners in Botany
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…
Jeanne Baret
CollectorsWomen in ScienceExpeditions
Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
Frances W. Horne
Frances Horne was an academic, an artist and a botanist. She earned her…
Violetta White
Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield (1875–1949) was a promising young mycologist at the…
Ellen's Algae
See more of Ellen Hutchin's beautifully detailed marine algae collections.
Ellen Hutchins - Ireland's First Female Botanist
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
Elizabeth Britton and the Curly-Grass Fern
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
Hidden Women Botanists - Mrs. Herbert Huntington Smith
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…
Women in Genera
What's in a name?Women in Science
For as long as we've been using binomial nomenclature to name species,…