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Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century botanizers, amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.

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The Botanizers Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America - photo 1
The Botanizers
Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
Elizabeth B Keeney The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill - photo 2
Elizabeth B. Keeney
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill & London
title:The Botanizers : Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-century America
author:Keeney, Elizabeth.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807820466
print isbn13:9780807820469
ebook isbn13:9780807862391
language:English
subjectBotanizers--United States--History--19th century, Botany--United States--History--19th century.
publication date:1992
lcc:QK46.5.B66K44 1992eb
ddc:581/.0973/09034
subject:Botanizers--United States--History--19th century, Botany--United States--History--19th century.
1992 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for performance and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
96 95 94 93 92 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keeney, Elizabeth
The botanizers: amateur scientists in nineteenth-century
America / by Elizabeth B. Keeney.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2046-6 (cloth: alk. paper).
1. BotanizersUnited StatesHistory19th century.
2. BotanyUnited StatesHistory19th century. I. Title.
QK46.5.B66K44 Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 61992
581'.0973'09034dc20 Picture 7Picture 8Picture 992-5022
"Botanizing" (Frontispiece from William Whitman Bailey,
Botanizing: A Guide to Field Collecting and Herbarium Work,
1899)
In memory of Will Humphreys:
teacher, mentor, and friend
Contents
Acknowledgments,
xi
Introduction,
1
1
Botanizing,
9
2
Information Networks in the Botanical Community,
22
3
Botanizing and Self-Improvement,
38
4
Children, Education, and Amateur Botany,
51
5
Gender and Botany,
69
6
Botanizing and the Invention of Leisure,
83
7
Natural Theology and Amateur Botany,
99
8
Botany and the Rhetoric of Utility,
112
9
The Triumph of Professionalization,
123
10
The Nature-Study Movement: The Legacy of Amateur Botany,
135
Conclusion,
146
Notes,
151
Bibliography,
171
Index,
197

Illustrations
"Botanizing"
frontispiece
William Whitman Bailey
17
Josselyn Botanical Society, 1896
28
"How Plants Grow"
40
"Uncle Philip Talking to the Boys"
53
"The Passion Flower"
73
"What Ye Got Now?"
87
"And God Saw That It Was Good"
102
"The Farmer and the Class in Botany"
115
Syracuse Botanical Club, 1915
127
"The Fields and Forests"
144

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