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Reprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr215-305, 32 figs.. AppendicesMay 16,2008One Hundred and Fifty Years of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences (1853-2003)Thomas F. DanielDepartment of Botany. California Academy of Sciences. 55 Concourse Drive.Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118; Email: tdan'ud@calacademy.orỵFOREWORDHist history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrory does not write itself, which is why my name appears on this publication. Although assembling it has taken me from my studies of Acanthaccac and wohistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
rk on a nearly completed account of the flora of San Francisco County, my work on this project has truly been a labor of love. Who would not enjoy wriReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr account is "a” history of botany at the California Academy of Sciences rather than “the” history of botany there. It focuses on the most famous curators in the Department of Botany: Kellogg, Curran/Rrandcgcc, Fastwood, and Howell. I harbor enormous respect for each of them and what they accomplishe history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrd under circumstances far less ideal than those enjoyed by curators at the Academy today. Their achievements resulted primarily from who they were ashistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
individuals rather than from support afforded by their employer. In time, Breedlove’s name may join them based largely on his important collections frReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr tropical systematics. The current curators OW'C an enormous debt to our predecessors who established botanical science at the Academy and built a solid foundation for its future.Much of this account grew out of my presidential address to the American Society of Plant Taxonomists in 2001. Many membe history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrrs of that audience indicated that the stories involving Kellogg. Curran.'Brandcgcc, Eastwood, and Howell should be published to inspire future generahistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
tions of plant systcmatisLs. While only a few' of “the talcs” from that talk arc related in this account, all of them can be found among the literaturReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrartment of Botany; archivists and librarians Michelle Well-ck, Karen F.lsbcmd, Larry Currie, and Anne Malley of the Academy’s Library and Special Collections who provided access to materials in their care and helped me locate other references; Department of Botany associate Catherine Best w ho wrote history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr up an account of the recent history of the California Botanical Club for my use; and the staff of the Department of Botany (especially collections mahistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
nager Bruce Bartholomew, secretary Janet Jones, and senior curator Frank Almeda) who provided materials or insights that improved the text. The followReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrn, Meredith Blackwell, California Historical Society, Dennis Desjardin, Barbara Ertter, Wilma Follett. Deborah Lewis, DeAda Maliy, LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden, Ron Petersen, Donald 11. Pfister, Thomas Ranker, Peter Raven, Paul Silva, Stephen Sinon. Kim Steiner, Barbara history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr Thiers, Susan Thomas. Sutro Library, University and Jepson215216PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESSeries 4. Volume 59. No. 7herbaria ohistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
f the University of California al Berkeley, and Rebeeea Wenk. I am especially grateful to Richard Beidleman, Rogers McVaugh, Peter Raven, and Alan WhiReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrd to Andrew Doran for locating, scanning, and granting permission to reproduce several items from the archives of the University and Jepson herbaria, University of California. Berkeley. 1 made considerable use of the Department of Botany’s “biography files.” an informal archival resource housed in t history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrhe Department that contains about 10 linear feet of archival boxes with newspaper clippings, obituaries, letters, photos, announcements, newsletter arhistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
ticles, etc. pertaining to botanists and others, most of whom have or had an affiliation with the Academy or other inslitutions/organizations in CalifReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr wish to thank the California Academy of Sciences for making possible the remarkable story of botany at the institution and for supporting my efforts to bring “a” version of that story into print.ContentsIntroduction...........................................................................216I.Begi history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrnnings and Early History (185.3 18X3)...........................................217II.First Female Curator of Botany (1883-1894)......................history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
...................232III.Eastwood Era and a New Beginning (1891-1949)......................................239IV.Howell and Associates (1950 1968) ..Reprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrs. Impacts, and Future Directions......................................263Amateurs in Botany...................................................................263Female Curators and Gender Discrimination............................................264Destruction and Opportunity....................... history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr...................................265Importance of Early Curators.........................................................266Evolution of “Curator” ahistory_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr
nd Changing 1 rends in Research..............................269Relationships with other Centers of Botany in the Bay Area...........................2Reprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr.........................272Notes. ..7...........7.................................................................274Literature Cited.......................................................................291Appendix 1. Botanical curators by year.................................................298 history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lrReprinted from the Proceedings of the California Academy of SciencesPROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY QI SCIENCESScries 4, Volume 59, No. 7, pp. 2Gọi ngay
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