Elsie May Kittredge Explained
Elsie May Kittredge (May 14, 1870 – 1954) was an American botanist, photographer, and curator for the New York Botanical Gardens.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Notes and References
- Kittredge, Elsie May (1870–1954) . Global Plants . JSTOR . August 18, 2018.
- Web site: Anderson . Laura . Finding Aid Catalog Number: MABI 14135 - BILLINGS - KITTREDGE HERBARIUM ARCHIVES 1908 - 1997 (bulk dates 1912 - 1929) . Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park . National Park Service . August 18, 2018 . December 27, 2012 . MABI 14135 1 HISTORY The Billings – Kittredge Herbarium was created by Elizabeth Billings (1871–1944) and Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954). Ms. Billing s, the daughter of Frederick Billings and an amateur botanist, hired New York Botanical Garden curator, Elsie Kittredge, in 1917 to assist her in collecting botanical specimens from Woodstock and the surrounding area..
- Web site: Historic Images . Brooklyn Botanic Garden . August 18, 2018 . Kittredge was born on May 14, 1870 in Dayton, Ohio. She moved with her family to New York City in 1879 and in 1904 to Spring Valley, where she found a rich supply of materials for plant collecting....She discovered a new maidenhair fern on the Billings estate which she named in their honor: Adiantum pedatum forma billingsae Kittredge. She was the author of Ferns and Flowering Plants of Woodstock Vermont (1931) and Supplement to the Ferns and Flowering Plants of Woodstock Vermont (1936), and was associate editor of The Flora of Vermont (1937).
- Brown . Paul Martin . A Seed Many Years Dormant: The Discoveries of Elsie M. Kittredge, Botanist . Vermont Natural History . 1976 . 9.
