The Botanizers

Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-century America

• Author(s): Elizabeth Keeney,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 206
• ISBN_10: 0807820466
  ISBN_13: 9780807820469
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Nature / Reference , History / United States / 19th Century ,

Description:... After rising to fashion during the 1820s, botany rapidly became the most popular science in America for recreational and pedagogical purposes, and it remained tremendously popular throughout the century. Tens of thousands of enthusiasts, calling themselve