Jane Colden
America's first woman botanist
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Author
Publication
2009 - Purple mountain press, Fleischmanns, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25255562M
- ISBN-139780916346805
- ISBN-100916346803
- OCLC Control Number491282617
- Library of Congress Control Number2009937532
Classifications
- LCCQK31.C66 R63 2009
Description
"In eighteenth-century America, 'A female botanist was a rare thing to contemplate,' according to Raymond Phineas Stearns in his 1970 compendium, Science in the British Colonies of America. The daughter of the colonial lieutenant governor of the colony of New York and a naturalist well known to the international circle of botanists, Jane Colden became her father's protégé. She corresponded regularly with several of her father's friends, exchanging information about plants. Jane produced an herbal describing in both words and drawings 341 plants that grew in and around her father's 3,000-acre estate west of Newburgh, New York. The manuscript now resides in the Natural History Museum of London." -- cover.
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