Posts Tagged ‘botanical disasters’
Frederick Lueders and the Lost Botanical Treasure of the Columbia River
The Sauk County Botanist November 13, 1843 Today is the anniversary of the day that the German botanist, Frederick Lueders, lost all of his botanical work. Frederick was botanizing along the Columbia River in Oregon. For the past three years, Frederick had collected specimens across North America. He had just encountered the explorer John…
Read MoreA Naturalist’s Nightmare and a Botanical Tragedy: Douglas’s Disastrous Day on the Fraser
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 13, 1833 It was on this day that our intrepid botanical adventurer, David Douglas, learned that Mother Nature can be a most fickle mistress indeed. While lesser men might have contented themselves…
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