NMNH Field Book Project: Reading Sarah McGrath’s May 1834 Herbarium: Botanical Study at Science Hill Female Ac

Jessica C. Linker, University of Connecticut Science Hill Female Academy Records, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY. I began my professional work – exploring women’s historical relationship to scientific practice – through a quirk of geography; I grew up in the same town as Almira Lincoln Phelps, the famous nineteenth-century...

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