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A Pocket Guide to British Plants
... In these networks, there are examples of active female botanists . Marian Farquharson (1846–1912) authored the Pocket Guide to British Ferns and campaigned for women's admission to the Royal and Linnean Societies (Ridley, 1881; Mason, 1995); Eliza Standerwick Gregory (1840–1832) wrote a monograph on Violets (Gregory, 1912); Gwendolen Day (1884–1967) was president of the Bedford Natural History and Archaeological Society; Lady Joanna Davy (1865– 1955) and Gertrude Foggit (A.K.A Gertrude Bacon, 1874–1949) were co-discoverers of Carex microglochin in Britain (Desmond, 1977). Gertrude Foggit was a particularly pioneering woman, being the first woman to fly in an airship and the first English woman to fly in an airplane (Haines, 2001). ...
The labels on herbarium specimens hold information on the plant collected, but also on the botanist. Recent digitisation allows these data to be used for many types of investigation, including study of the botanists themselves. As a proof of concept, we reconstructed prosopographical networks of botanical exchange that existed in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth century and investigate the nature of these networks and their actors. Data from British Herbaria digitised on Herbaria@home were used to create network diagrams from the names of collectors, determiners, communicators and curators mentioned on herbarium specimens collected from 1856 to 1932. Data from herbarium specimens credibly reconstructed botanical exchange networks. These networks provided metrics on the actors in botanical exchange and can be used to quantify the role of different categories of actor. The botanical networks of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were shown to be highly connected and despite the existence of two exchange clubs during part of this period the network was not divided. Herbarium specimens are a useful resource for botanical scientometrics; revealing scientific links between botanists that are not visible in correspondence, citation and co-authorship networks. Further digitisation of herbarium specimens coupled with openness of the data will further facilitate our understanding of how botanists work.
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