Jane Colden
Subtitle: America's first woman botanist
By: Paula Ivaska Robbins
Publisher: Purple mountain press; Purple Mountain Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fleischmanns, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780916346805
Subjects: Women botanists; Biography
Description: "In eighteenth-century America, 'A female botanist was a rare thing to contemplate,' according to Raymond Phineas Stearns in his 1970 compendium, Science in the British Colonies of America. The daughter of the colonial lieutenant governor of the colony of New York and a naturalist well known to the international circle of botanists, Jane Colden became her father's protégé. She corresponded regularly with several of her father's friends, exchanging information about plants. Jane produced an herbal describing in both words and drawings 341 plants that grew in and around her father's 3,000-acre estate west of Newburgh, New York. The manuscript now resides in the Natural History Museum of London." -- cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.89-92) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cadwallader Colden; title: New York; title: Coldengham; title: Education; title: Plantae Coldenhamiae; title: A foreign visitor; title: Alexander garden; title: Jane's reputation as a botanist grows; title: Jane Colden's botanic manuscript; title: Epilogue.