Jane Colden - America's First Female Botanist
Highly respected among her male peers in the 18th century, Jane Colden…
Women in Science
Highly respected among her male peers in the 18th century, Jane Colden…
Frances Horne was an academic, an artist and a botanist. She earned her…
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A beloved member of the NYBG community for over 40 years, Carol…
Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…
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Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Some of our herbarium specimens are of incredibly rare species. This is…
Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield (1875–1949) was a promising young mycologist at the…
See more of Ellen Hutchin's beautifully detailed marine algae collections.
Among many of the interesting things Ellen Hutchins collected were collections that…
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…
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
What's in a name?Women in Science
For as long as we've been using binomial nomenclature to name species,…
Natural history was immensely popular in the Victorian era, but women were…
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…
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…