The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9780807872055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 220 str.

Elizabeth B. Keeney

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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.