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Alice Eastwood
BornJanuary 19, 1859 (1859-01-19)
Toronto, Canada West
DiedOctober 30, 1953 (1953-10-31) (aged 94)
San Francisco, California, United States
Resting placeToronto Necropolis[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Institutions
  • California Academy of Sciences
  • Gray Herbarium
  • New York Botanical Garden
  • British Museum
  • Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
Author abbrev. (botany)Eastw.

Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She published over 310 scientific articles and authored 395 land plant species names, the fourth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist.[2] There are seventeen currently recognized species named for her, as well as the genera Eastwoodia and Aliciella.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference fuchsia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lindon, Heather L.; Gardiner, Lauren M.; Brady, Abigail; Vorontsova, Maria S. (5 May 2015). "Fewer than three percent of land plant species named by women: Author gender over 260 years". Taxon. 64 (2): 209–215. doi:10.12705/642.4.

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