1. Alice Eastwood is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
16 Facts About Alice Eastwood
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Alice Eastwood published over 310 scientific articles and authored 395 land plant species names, the fourth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist.
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Alice Eastwood was born on January 19,1859, in Toronto, Canada West, to Colin Skinner Eastwood and Eliza Jane Gowdey Eastwood.
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Alice Eastwood's father worked at the Toronto Asylum for the Insane.
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Alice Eastwood was a self-taught botanist and learned from published botany manuals including Gray's Manual and the Flora of Colorado.
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Alice Eastwood was a member of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell's Colorado Biological Association.
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Early in her career, Alice Eastwood made collecting expeditions in Colorado and the Four Corners region.
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Alice Eastwood became close with the Wetherill Family, and visited Alamo Ranch in Mesa Verde often, beginning in July 1889.
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Each time Alice Eastwood visited, she was particularly welcomed by Al Wetherill, who shared an interest in her work.
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Alice Eastwood made collecting expeditions to the edge of the Big Sur region, which at the end of the 19th century was a virtual frontier, since no roads penetrated the central coast beyond the Carmel Highlands.
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Alice Eastwood is credited with saving the academy's type plant collection after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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In 1912, with completion of the new academy facilities at Golden Gate Park, Alice Eastwood returned to the position of curator of the herbarium and reconstructed the lost part of the collection.
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Alice Eastwood went on numerous collecting vacations in the Western United States, including Alaska, Arizona, Utah and Idaho.
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Alice Eastwood is credited with publishing over 310 articles during her career.
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Alice Eastwood served as editor of the biological journal Zoe and as an assistant editor for Erythea before the 1906 earthquake, and founded a journal, Leaflets of Western Botany, with John Thomas Howell.
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Alice Eastwood was director of the San Francisco Botanical Club for several years throughout the 1890s.