Mary Gibson Henry
Mary Gibson Henry (* 1884 , † 1967 ) was an American botanist and president of the American Horticultural Society . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " MGHenry ".
Life
Mary Gibson Henry was born near Jenkinstown, Pennsylvania in 1884 . Her mother was Susan Worrell Pepper and her father was John Howard Gibson. The family were Quakers . Gardening was common in the family, and Mary Gibson's grandfather was a gardener. Still, until 1894, she spent her childhood in an apartment in downtown Philadelphia without a garden.
She attended the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia for six years from 1896 to 1902. After school, she toured the Grand Canyon, the Colorado Rockies, and finally Europe, where she climbed Mont Blanc . In 1909 she married the physicist John Norman Henry. Mary Gibson begins growing orchids and the room soon becomes too small for her, so in 1926 she buys a farm near Philadelphia.
She started several expeditions through the western United States and Canada and began collecting plants, which she later described herself . Her farm is quickly becoming a botanical garden with many rare species, after her death the garden was taken over by the Henry Foundation for Botanical Research .
Her herbarium is now kept in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Some of the seeds and living plants she collected were sent to the Arnold Arboretum and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh .
Mary Gibson Henry has received a variety of awards and prizes, including the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Mungo Park Medal , the Herbert Medal, and the Schaeffer Gold Medal . In addition, Mount Mary Henry was named after her.
Dedication names
The plant species Hymenocallis henryae , a species from the genus of the fair skin ( Hymenocallis ), was named after Mary Gibson Henry in honor of her.
literature
- Mary Gibson Henry: Mary Gibson Henry: an autobiography . In: Herbertia . tape 6 , April 20, 1956, pp. 8-28 .
- Mary Harrison: Mary Gibson Henry, Plantwoman Extraordinaire . In: Arnoldia . tape 60 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 2–12 ( arboretum.harvard.edu [PDF]).
- VC Brink, S. Silver: Mary Henry: Pioneer Botanist of the Northern Rockies . In: British Columbia Historical News . tape 30 , no. 1 (1996-97) , ISSN 1195-8294 , pp. 16-19 ( library.ubc.ca [PDF]).
Web links
- Author entry and list of described plant names for Mary Gibson Henry at the IPNI
- Ross Peck: Mary Gibson Henry Expeditions. Living Landscapes, accessed December 22, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henry, Mary Gibson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Jenkinstown (Pennsylvania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1967 |