Posts Tagged ‘Missouri Botanical Gardens’
Eva Reed: Dedicated Botanist, Author, and Missouri Botanical Gardens Librarian
Missouri Botanical Garden Botanist Today the world lost Eva Reed, a botanist, author, and librarian with the Missouri Botanical Gardens. In the years before she died, she had become almost entirely deaf as the result of a fever. In a tragic accident, Reed had been sketching on the tracks of the Burlington railway, near Louisiana,…
Read MoreA Botanist Silenced: The Tragic End of Eva Reed
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 8, 1901 On this day, dear readers, the gardening world lost one of its unsung heroines when Eva Reed, a botanist of considerable talent, met her untimely end beneath the wheels of…
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