Posts Tagged ‘University of Michigan’
Asa Gray’s 1838 Wilkes Expedition Resignation: Pivot to Harvard and the Rise of American Botany
A Person of Action On this day, the botanist Asa Gray resigned from the Wilkes Expedition. Gray was frustrated by all of the delays, he was a person of action, and he also disliked Captain Charles Wilkes. Gray disagreed with Wilkes about the Latin descriptions of the new taxa, and he also disagreed with Wilkes’s…
Read MoreA Life in Full Bloom: Celebrating Zina Pitcher’s Remarkable Journey
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 12, 1797 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of one Zina Pitcher in the quaint settlement of Sandy Hill, New York—a man whose life story begs the telling with…
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