TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anema,Durlynn
TI  - The perfect specimen: the 20th century renown botanist Ynés Mexía 
SN  - 0881001708
AV  - QK31.M438 A535 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified].
PB  - Durlynn Anema
KW  - Mexía, Ynés,
KW  - Women botanists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Botanists
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Women explorers
KW  - Women adventurers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Attending college at 50-years-old was rare in the 1920's especially for a woman. For Ynés Mexía it marked the beginning of a career as a botanical collector. Throughout the rest of her life, she took long expeditions into the wilds of Mexico, South America and Alaska accompanied, with few exceptions, only by her native guides. These explorations enabled her to find thousands of specimens including several hundred newly discovered ones. Her legacy lives on through her botanical discoveries and a new genus and fifty new species named after her
UR  - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/the-perfect-specimen-the-20th-century-renown-botanist-ynes-mex%e1%bc%b0a/
ER  -