September 1867. Dr. Anderson in a field of Cinchona succiruba in the Sikkim Himalaya. Note the bamboo forest in the background.

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July 1877 Pictures of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories under the direction of Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden [1829-1887]. Photograph taken by William Henry Jackson [1843-1942] at La Veta Pass, Colorado.

"Three stragglers" in background and from left to right (mostly seated): Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker [1817-1911], Asa Gray [1810-1888], Mrs. Strachey, Jane Loring Gray [1821-1909], Captain Stevenson, Dr. Lanborn, General Strachey, Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden [1829-1887]

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Circa 1880s. John H. Redfield [1815-1895] collecting flowers at Mt. Desert Island, Maine. The Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine was his last work.

Redfield became interested in botany at an early age. He worked for many years at a car-wheel manufacturing firm and retired from active business in 1885 to spent the remainder of his life to studying and collecting ferns. He also worked on restoring and building up the herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

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1884. Cyrus Guernsey (C.G.) Pringle [1838-1911] self portrait titled "Left in the Desert". Arizona.

Pringle, a devout Quaker from Vermont, became an avid and skilled horticulturalist. He joined the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and there met Dr. Asa Gray. For twenty-six years Pringle explored and collected the flora of Mexico for the Gray Herbarium. He achieved a record of botanical fieldwork in Mexico that remains unsurpassed today.

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August 29, 1890. Elinor Lambert & Walter Deane [1848-1930] collecting dried blotters on the "Blotter Field", Jaffery, New Hampshire.

Walter Deane graduated from Harvard in 1870. Deane taught at the Hopkinson School in Boston until 1895, when he gave up teaching for health reasons. During this period Deane developed the basis for many life-long interests including ornithology and botany. Deane was an inveterate collector of everything from a carefully constructed herbarium and autographs of botanists to stereopticon views and picture post-cards.

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Circa. 1900 George Golding Kennedy [1841-1918] and Annie Lorenz [1879-1927] collecting in Willoughby, Vermont.

George Golding Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1864 and received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1867. After practicing medicine for a short time, he took over his father's business of manufacturing medicines, an occupation which allowed him to acquire considerable wealth while leaving him with enough leisure to carry out his own studies. He had studied botany under Asa Gray at Harvard and maintained a life-long interest in the subject. He was active in the New England Botanical Club, published brief articles on botany, and in 1904, published a flora of Willoughby, Vt.

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Christmas, 1904. Curtis Gates (C.G.) Lloyd [1859-1926] with his Samoan friends. Picture taken in Apia, Samoa.

Curtis Gates Lloyd was actually not a mycologist by profession. In his first career, he and his two brothers ran a successful wholesale pharmaceutical company called Lloyd Brothers. The company was so successful that Lloyd retired while still relatively young and hired a replacement to take charge of his department so that he could pursue his mycological interest.

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November 1908 Charles Reid Barnes [1858-1910] near Tehuacan, Mexico. Taken by his laboratory assistant Mr. Land.

Dr. Charles Reid Barnes was a nationally recognized authority on the taxonomy of mosses. Barnes began his botany career studying at Harvard under Asa Gray. He became a professor of botany at Purdue University in 1882. In 1887 he was called to the University of Wisconsin and for 11 years developed and maintained the botany department there. In 1898 he became the first professor of plant biology at the University of Chicago. Barnes also served as editor for the Botanical Gazette.

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1918. "My guides in the humid forest of the Cordillera Province of Chiriqui, Panama." Image taken by botanist Ellsworth Paine Killip [1890-1968].

Ellsworth Paine Killip was a specialist on South American phanerogams. He worked at the National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Institution and in 1946 was made Curator of the United States National Herbarium. He collected in Jamaica but his most extensive collecting was done in Columbia.

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1928. Hubert Earl (H.E.) Ransier [1865-] holding a fertile A. Celsum (i.e. Acrostichum danaefolium) in front of his car. Near Fort Pierce, Florida.

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June 1931. Charles Alfred (C.A.) Weatherby [1875-1949], Ludlow Griscom [1890-1959], and Alfred S. Goodale [1876-1957] on a collecting trip in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Weatherby served as a full-time assistant curator at the Gray Herbarium and from 1937 to 1940 he was senior curator. On his retirement in 1940 he was made a research associate and he continued doing work there until his death on June 21, 1949. Weatherby is probably best known as a fern specialist, but he also became very involved in working out issues of botanical nomenclature.

Griscom held a research position at Harvard University from 1927 until his retirement in 1955. Griscom was the first to effectively demonstrate that birds need not be collected to be correctly identified.

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May 15, 1939. Mary Knapp (nee Strong) Clemens [1873-] and Alaseu, a New Guinea native.

Photograph taken by Reverend Bergmann of the Boana Mission at Mt. Sarawaket, Morobe, New Guinea. Clemens spent April through June in this camp and then spent 2 weeks at the timberline, ascending the two summits with Alaseu as her only companion. On the back of the photograph it says; "Alaseu's smile, put on for the photo,or he was thinking of the proud moment when he captured a walla-walla bare handed."

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April 1951 Edith Henry Scamman [1882-1967] with the plants of Blechnum buchtienii near La Chonta, in the Sierra de Talamanca of Costa Rica.

Edith Scamman enrolled in botany courses at Radcliffe in 1935. There she became interested in plant distributions in unglaciated areas of Alaska. Beginning in 1936 she made 9 collecting trips to Alaska. Her trips resulted in the addition of some 5000 specimens to the Gray Herbarium. Association with C.A. Weatherby at the Gray Herbarium led Scamman to develop an interest in ferns. She began studying the ferns of Costa Rica and made four collecting trips there as well as publishing 4 articles on Costa Rican ferns. She was working on one at the time of her death.

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June 1953 Richard Evans Schultes [1915-2001] with Maku helpers. Collecting in the lower Vaupes, Columbia.

Richard Evans Schultes was widely considered the preeminent authority on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants. He was often called the father of ethnobotany. Over decades of research, mainly in Colombia's Amazon region, Schultes documented the use of more than 2,000 medicinal plants among Indians of a dozen tribes, many of whom had never seen a white man before.

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1970 Donald Pfister [1945-] collecting in Venezuala.

Don Pfister is the current Director of the Harvard University Herbaria, Curator of the Farlow Herbarium, and Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany. He works in both the cryptogamic collections and the library. His current projects include monographic work on the Sarcoscyphineae, and life history studies of nematode trapping fungi. He teaches mycology and related topics, and offers a core course for non-biologists, Biology of Trees and Forests.

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1980?? Elizabeth A. Kellogg and Peter F. Stevens collecting.

Elizabeth A. Kellogg is a Professor of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research interests include plant systematics and phylogeny of the grass family and the Poales. Peter F. Stevens is a Professor of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis and a curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden. His research interests include revisionary/monographic studies, flowering plant morphology and phylogeny, theory of character states, and the history of natural history

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October 1975 Bernice Schubert [1913-2000] collecting in Oaxoca Montalban.

Bernice Schubert worked as a research assistant in systematic botany at Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1936 to 1939, where she did taxonomic research on Desmodium and Begonia. She assisted with M.L. Fernald's Gray's Manual of Botany (8th edition) and Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America. From 1950 to 1951, she conducted research on legumes as a Guggenheim fellow in Europe. From 1952 to 1961, she was employed as a plant taxonomist for the U.S.D.A. Among various positions, she was the curator of the Arnold Arboretum, a senior lecturer on biology, and the editor of the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.

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1991. Robert Kenneth Godfrey, Jr. [1911-2000] and an unidentified woman collecting in Tate's Hell, Florida. "Ancient dwarf forest of Taxodium ascendens in "Tates Hell" between Sumatra, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. A Mr. Tate allegedly entered the forest by himself and, when he eventually found his way out he declared he had been to hell." .

Robert Godfrey was a graduate of Harvard University, with a doctorate degree from Duke. He taught at Florida State from 1954 to 1974, when he retired and was named professor emeritus. After his retirement, Dr. Godfrey continued his research at Tall Timbers Research Station near Tallahassee. He published many scientific papers and botanical reference books, specializing in North Florida plants.

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1998 Scott LaGreca collecting the lichen Ramalina siliquosa on cliffs overlooking the sea. The picture was taken on the island of Bornholm (Denmark) in the Baltic Sea.

Scott LaGreca serves as Curatorial /Research Associate for the Farlow Herbarium. His research interests are species-level relationships and chemosystematics of lichen fungi and he maintains a special interest in the genera Lecanora and Ramalina.

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2000 [From left to right] Susan Kelley, David Boufford, and Brian Perry collecting in China.

David E. Boufford is the Assistant Director for the Collections. His research interests are on the vascular plants of temperate to subtropical Asia, their patterns of distribution and how they relate to the plants of North America. Brian Perry is a graduate student studying fungal evolution, systematics, and taxonomy. Susan Kelley

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June 2000 Rachel Spicer standing on the shoulders of P. Barry Tomlinson in Miami, Florida at the Harvard Summer Workshop in Tropical Botany

Phillip Barry Tomlinson is the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor Of Biology. His interests include general problems of growth, architecture, and reproductive biology of woody plants, with special attention to selected ecological and systematic groups, e.g. mangroves, seagrasses, woody monocotyledons, and tropical conifers. Rachel Spicer is a graduate student in the biological labs. She is studying plant morphology, xylem and phloem structure and function, and radial transport in woody stems.

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