Ellen Powell Thompson
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Ellen Louella Powell Thompson was an American naturalist and botanist, and an active advocate for women's suffrage.
Ellen Powell Thompson, c. 1900
Powell family: Back row, left to right: Ellen Powell Thompson, William Bramwell Powell, William (Billy) P. Powell, Almon Harris Thompson. Front row: John Wesley Powell and Mary Powell Wheeler. Topeka, Kansas, circa 1900.
Asa Gray
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Asa Gray was an American botanist who was considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was considered by some as an important explanation of how religion and sci
Ellen Powell Thompson
…385 specimens, 15 of which would become type specimens for new taxa. Every three months, Thompson sent her collections of dried pressed plants to Dr Asa Gray at Harvard University. Many of these specimens reside at the Gray Herbarium, part of Harvard University Herbaria. Some were deposited in the United…
Gray in the 1870s
Gray in 1841
Shortia galacifolia, which Gray named
Suksdorfia violacea, the type species of its genus