Women in Florida Field Botany: 1873-1972 with Alan Franck - Palm Beach County FNPS - Chapter Meeting - CONSERVATION GROUP

“Women in Florida Field Botany: 1873-1972”People like Alvan W. Chapman and John K. Small figure prominently in early Florida botany. Overlooked are many women who made significant contributions in Florida field botany, such as Mary C. Reynolds, Eleanor Scull, Lucia McCulloch, Mary F. Baker, Lillian Arnold, Mary Agnes Chase, Helen Butts Correll, Ruth Schornherst Breen, Olga Lakela, etc. This talk will explore some of this history. On Alan Franck:Alan is a botanist and educator at the University of Florida herbarium, within the Florida Museum of Natural History located in Gainesville, Florida. Previously, he worked at Florida International University in Miami, studying the local flora and funga. He has also served as the director of the University of South Florida herbarium, which has a heavy concentration on the flora of Florida. He received his Ph. D. from the University of South Florida, where his dissertation studied the systematics of a rare cactus (Harrisia) in Florida and the Caribb