Book ID: 49652
Keeney, Elizabeth B.
The Botanizers. Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth Century America. 1992.Illus. XII,206 p.Cloth.
After rising to fashion during the 1820s, botany rapidly became themost popular science in America for recreational and pedagogicalpurposes, and it remained tremendously popular throughout the century.Tens of thousands of enthusiasts, calling themselves "botanizers",embraced the pastime by collecting, identifying, and preservingspecimens. Elizabeth Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives ofthese amateur scientists and establishes the role that they in turnplay in the botanical community.