Elizabeth B Keeney: 1 book

Book cover of The Botanizers

The Botanizers

Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America

by Elizabeth B. Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
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