Herbarium scientist, University of California, Davis
By: interview conducted by Ann Lage ; introduction by John Tucker ; Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Tucker, John Maurice, 1916-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: McCaskill Gardens (Pasadena, Calif.); University of California, Davis. Arboretum; University of California, Davis. Herbarium.; Friends of the Davis Arboretum, Davis, Calif.; Botany -- California.; Botanists -- California -- Interviews.; Botanical gardens.; Arboretums.
Other titles: Women in Botany Project.
Description: She discusses her lifetime association with plants and horticulturists , beginning with her family's nursery, McCaskill Gardens in Pasadena. After graduation from Mills College she was hired by botanist John M. Tucker as an assistant in the University of California, Davis, herbarium. She speaks of her curatorial work in preserving, identifying, cataloging, and making available over one hundred thousand plant specimens. She was active in founding the Friends of the Davis Arboretum.