Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
Tampilan
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (9 Januari 1858 – 25 Februari 1934) adalah seorang ahli botani, briologi, dan pendidik Amerika. Ia dan suaminya, Nathaniel Lord Britton, memainkan peran penting dalam penggalangan dana dan pendirian New York Botanical Garden. Ia adalah salah satu pendiri lembaga pendahulu American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Ia adalah seorang aktivis untuk perlindungan bunga liar, yang menginspirasi kegiatan cabang lokal dan pengesahan undang-undang. Elizabeth Britton memberikan kontribusi besar pada literatur tentang lumut, dengan menerbitkan 170 makalah di bidang tersebut.

Lihat pula
[sunting | sunting sumber]Daftar pusaka
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Anderson, Lewis E. (Spring 2000). "Early History of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society". The Bryologist. 103 (1): 3–14. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0003:ehotab]2.0.co;2. JSTOR 3244275. S2CID 83774247.
- Bonta, Marcia Myers (1991). Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-489-7.
- Britton, Nathaniel Lord (1918). Flora of Bermuda. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.1352. Diakses tanggal October 8, 2014.
- Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Millspaugh, Charles Frederick (June 26, 1920). The Bahama Flora. New York, NY. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2769. Diakses tanggal October 8, 2014. Pemeliharaan CS1: Lokasi tanpa penerbit (link)
- Gager, C. Stuart (June 1940). "Elizabeth G. Britton And The Movement For The Preservation Of Native American Wild Flowers". Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 41 (486): 137–142. Diakses tanggal October 21, 2014.
- Howe, Marshall A. (May 1934). "Elizabeth Gertrude Britton". Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 35 (413): 97–103. Diakses tanggal September 26, 2014.
- Kass, Lee B. (1997). "Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton (1858–1934)". Dalam Grinstein, Louise S.; Biermann, Carol A.; Rose, Rose K. (ed.). Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. hlm. 51–61. ISBN 978-0-313-29180-7.
- Slack, Nancy G. (1987), "American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows, and Work", dalam Abr-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda (ed.), Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789–1979, Rutgers University Press, hlm. 77–103, ISBN 9780813512563
- Steere, William Campbell (1971). "Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight". Dalam James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (ed.). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. I. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. hlm. 243–244.
- Buku karya dan tentang Elizabeth Gertrude Britton dari WorldCat
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[sunting | sunting sumber]- Karya Elizabeth Gertrude Britton di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
- Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Botanists Database: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton entry
- Physics.purdue.edu: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton biography and photo
- Plants.jstor.org: Biography and list of associated researchers
- Encyclopedia of World Scientists entry for Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton — by Elizabeth H. Oakes.
- Marc Rothenberg, History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia − Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton entry
- Herbarium sheet of type specimen of Ponthieva brittonae