Jane Colden - America's First Female Botanist
Highly respected among her male peers in the 18th century, Jane Colden…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Mary Agnes Chase was a self educated, determined, and influential botanist. Early…
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Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…
Catherine Furbish was born in 1834 in Exeter, New Hampshire. From an…
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
While digitizing specimens for the Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria,…
Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price (1849-1903) was one of Kentucky’s most esteemed botanical…
Caroline Coventry Haynes (1858-1951) is best known for her significant contributions to…
Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872-1952) was an American mycologist who specialized in the…
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…
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…
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…