Elizabeth McClintock
Elizabeth May McClintock (7 July 1912 – 19 October 2004) was a
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McClintock was a herbarium botanist at UCLA from 1941 through 1947. From 1949 until her retirement in 1977, she was a curator in the Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences. She added many tree specimens from Golden Gate Park to the herbaria after noticing they were not well documented.
She successfully battled the proposed
In 1976 she launched Pacific Horticulture magazine, after editing the Journal of the California Horticultural Society (1945–1975) for several years. She was also an Associate at the
project.In 2002 she was awarded with the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Veitch Memorial Medal.[2]
In 2004, Dr. Elizabeth McClintock died peacefully at a convalescent home in Santa Rosa, California at the age of 92.
References
- ^ Radcliffe, Jane. "Elizabeth McClintock (1912–2004)" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ "Elizabeth McClintock -- botanist, author". SFGate. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. E.M.McClint.
External links
- Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco. By Elizabeth McClintock. Edited and arranged by Richard G. Turner Jr. ISBN 1-890771-28-7) This book is based on the writings of E. McClintock, whose column on the trees of Golden Gate Park was a feature of Pacific Horticulture magazine for twenty-five years.
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