All posts tagged with botany

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Fun with Seeds

Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The New York Botanical Garden’s The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the most comprehensive botanical and horticultural library in the Americas, has recently cataloged all 58,000 items in its Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.

December 18, 2014byAndrew Tschinkel

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Early Women In Science: Trekking Through Nature, Trailblazing Their Way Through History

The sixteen women featured in the “Early Women In Science” exhibition are each extraordinary for unique reasons. One trait they all share is that they were doing work in scientific fields reserved for men. They sometimes had to fight for recognition of their work—or went completely unrecognized for some of their major contributions. For instance, Maria Emma Gray (1787-1876) was a talented natural history illustrator.

December 9, 2014byLaurel Byrnes

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Rejuvenating Centuries’ Old Botany with Phytogeography

Here’s a word of the day for you: Phytogeography. Phytogeography is a branch of biogeography that investigates the geographic distribution of plants and the effect that the earth’s surface has on that distribution. To go further down the rabbit hole, biogeography studies the distribution of species and organisms now and throughout time.

November 13, 2014byGrace Costantino

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Exploring the Rich History of Plant Science

In 1682, the first known microscopic depiction of pollen appeared in Nehemiah Grew’s Anatomy of Plants. Grew, now known as the “Father of Plant Anatomy,” revolutionized botanical science with his studies of plant structure. Exploiting the power of the microscope, he outlined key morphological differences in plant stems and roots and proposed the hypothesis that stamens are a plant’s male reproductive organs. Science has progressed significantly since the 17th century. Microscopes are no longer novel but commonplace, and scientists occupy their minds with theories about dark matter and quarks.

October 10, 2014byGrace Costantino

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BHL presentation to the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

On April 30, 2014 I attended the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) annual conference at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA.

May 22, 2014byBianca Crowley

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The Plants of Acadia National Park

As part of our regular BHL and Our Users series, we’re pleased to introduce Dr. Karen James, staff scientist at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL). Karen holds a PhD in genetics and has worked in her field for 11 years since receiving her degree. About seven years ago, her interests began shifting towards biodiversity and citizen science applications and she has graciously agreed to answer some questions about how BHL has impacted that work.

November 15, 2013byCarolyn Sheffield

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Happy Birthday to John Torrey!

It’s hard to imagine how the wild, western terrain of the United States looked just 200 years ago—try to replace the suburban communities, bright lights, interconnected highways, and towering buildings with the uninhibited growth of native plants in considerable number and variety occupying undeveloped and spacious lands. The pioneers that ventured beyond the Mississippi into this vast unknown were exalted as executors of manifest destiny, responsible for territorial expansion of the fledgling county.

August 15, 2013byKirsten Hostetler

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All posts tagged with botany

Fun with Seeds

Early Women In Science: Trekking Through Nature, Trailblazing Their Way Through History

Rejuvenating Centuries’ Old Botany with Phytogeography

Exploring the Rich History of Plant Science

BHL presentation to the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

The Plants of Acadia National Park

Happy Birthday to John Torrey!

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