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July 18, 2012

In 1906 the Garden purchased the William Mitten moss herbarium and she spent years on its reorganization and integration into the Garden’s collection.

The she in the above quote is none other than Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, wife of Nathaniel Lord Britton, was an amazing scientist, bryologist, naturalist, and co-founder of the Garden with her husband and a group of other New Yorkers. Read all about her and her efforts to expand upon the work of William Mitten here. ~AR
brilliantbotany:

This is William Mitten. He was a British pharmaceutical chemist who compiled a collection of over 50,000 plant specimens, mostly mosses, in his lifetime. He was a bryologist, someone who studies mosses.

In 1906 the Garden purchased the William Mitten moss herbarium and she spent years on its reorganization and integration into the Garden’s collection.

The she in the above quote is none other than Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, wife of Nathaniel Lord Britton, was an amazing scientist, bryologist, naturalist, and co-founder of the Garden with her husband and a group of other New Yorkers. Read all about her and her efforts to expand upon the work of William Mitten here. ~AR

brilliantbotany:

This is William Mitten. He was a British pharmaceutical chemist who compiled a collection of over 50,000 plant specimens, mostly mosses, in his lifetime. He was a bryologist, someone who studies mosses.

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