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The Botanizers

Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America

Elizabeth B. Keeney

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2000
Pages: 220
Subject: History, Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807862391

DESCRIPTION

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.