Ynes Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (born May 24, 1870 in Georgetown , Washington, DC , † July 11, 1938 in Berkeley , California ) was a Mexican-American botanist and explorer. Your botanical author abbreviation is " Mexia ".
Life
At the age of 51, Ynes Mexia began studying botany at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1925 she started her career as a plant collector with a trip to Mexico. In the following thirteen years she made numerous research expeditions to Mexico, Brazil , Peru , Chile , Ecuador , Colombia , Argentina and Alaska , where she collected around 150,000 plants, more than 500 of which were previously unknown.
She gave readings and slide presentations on her research results and published regularly in botanical journals such as "Madroño". She was a member of the California Botanical Society , the Sierra Club , the Audubon Association of the Pacific , the Sociedad Geografica de Lima , and the California Academy of Sciences , where her collection is also housed. She was also made an honorary member of the Department of Forestal y de Casa y Pesca de Mexico.
In 1938 she fell ill on one of her expeditions to Oaxaca and Guerrero in southwest Mexico and had to turn back. She died on July 12, 1938. The species Mimosa mexiae and Mexianthus mexicanus discovered by Ynes Mexia were named after her.
Fonts (selection)
- Botanical Trails in Old Mexico (1929)
- Brazilian ferns collected by Ynes Mexia (1932)
- Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon (1933)
- Camping on the Equator (1937)
estate
Ynes Mexico's Botanical Collection is housed in the California Academy of Sciences . In addition, there are offshoots of their plant collections in many botany research centers, for example in the Academy of Natural Sciences , (Philadelphia), the Field Museum of Natural History , (Chicago), the Gray Herbarium , Harvard University , in the University of California , ( Berkeley) as well as many important museums and botanical gardens , including the Royal Botanic Gardens (London), Jardin des Plantes (Paris), Botanisk Have (Copenhagen), Bergianska trädgården (Stockholm), the Old Botanical Garden (Zurich) and the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques (Geneva).
Her records are in the California Academy of Sciences and the Bancroft Library , Berkeley.
literature
- Durlynn Anema: Ynes Mexia, botanist and adventurer . Morgan Reynolds Inc, 2005
- Marcia Bonta: American women afield: writings by pioneering women naturalists . Texas University Press, 1995
- Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer (Ed.): Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1974
- Benjamin F. Shearer; Barbara Smith Shearer: Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary . Greenwood Group, 1996
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ynes Mexia at the IPNI
- Inventory to the papers of Ynes Mexia at the California Academy of Sciences with a short biography (pdf. Engl .; 60 kB)
- Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (1870-1938), short biographical article ( Memento of November 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ynes Mexia Photographs California Academy of Sciences Special Collections
- ^ Finding Aid to the Ynés Mexía Papers, 1872-1963 Bancroft Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mexia, Ynes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mexia, Ynes Enriquetta Julietta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican-American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Georgetown (Washington, DC) , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berkeley , California, USA |