It appears that she was not unduly perturbed at being stuck in the bottom of a 600 m deep gorge, nor that their only means of escape, were they not to starve to death, was to build a raft and negotiate a series of dangerous whirl-pools and rapids. Still being trapped on Christmas Day she even prepared a Christmas tree from a palm which she then decorated with red peppers and Poinsettias that grew nearby. Finally faced with the possibility of starvation, she and her team did in fact build a raft and successfully negotiated themselves down river. No she was based at the Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley. We have a fairly comprehensive set of her collections here in our herbarium.
Botanists tend to make several duplicate sets when they are collecting.
They do this so that they can distribute their collections to several different institutions, including a number in the country from where the collections were made. This means that collections, which are irreplaceable, are less likely to be lost by a chance event at any one institute. In addition, they can ensure that the specialists for any particular group of plants will receive and identify their collections, thereby providing a second opinion of their own identifications.