Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco .

Alice Eastwood was a successful botanist and fierce conservationist. She fought to preserve Muir Woods National Monument and Mt. Tamalpais State Park as well as many other redwood groves in California. She worked at the California Academy of Sciences for over 50 years. She collected over 300,000 specimens in her lifetime.

In May of 1887, Eastwood, then aged 28, guided 66-year old Alfred Russel Wallace, the famous British naturalist and pioneer in evolutionary biology, up Gray’s Peak on a botanical collecting trip for three days.1,2,3,4 He was impressed by her botanical knowledge and skills in the field.4He referred to this in his autobiography My Life.4 By this t...

2024年8月26日 · Alice Eastwood rushed from her home, ignoring her personal belongings to salvage what she could at the herbarium. Alongside a colleague, she managed to rescue 1,497 plant specimens and numerous books from the perilous surroundings.

Botanist Alice Eastwood (1859-1953) amassed a startlingly detailed amount of research on the flowering plants and herbs native to the California coast and the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It was her ardent collecting of plant specimens that helped establish a definitive classification table for the flora of North America .

Canadian-born American botanist and naturalist who was a pioneer in the environmental movement in California. Born on January 19, 1859, in Toronto, Canada; died in San Francisco, California, on October 30, 1953; daughter of Colin Skinner Eastwood and Eliza Jane (Gowdey) Eastwood; had one sister and brother; never married.

2017年9月25日 · For the modern managers of Mount Tamalpais, Alice Eastwood is both an inspiration and a vital source of information. Her notebooks are still at the Academy of Sciences; her work of a century ago forms a baseline for all later assessments of …

Alice Eastwood was born to Colin Skinner Eastwood and Eliza Jane Gowdey Eastwood on January 19, 1859, in Toronto Canada. The family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1873 and Alice Eastwood went on to graduate as valedictorian from Shawa Convent Catholic High …

She began to make a name for herself in botany and established the only plant collection in Colorado at the time. Alice Eastwood wrote and published the first book on flora in central Colorado, A Popular Flora of Denver, Colorado, in 1893.

2021年1月19日 · On the day of the 1906 earthquake, Alice Eastwood, curator of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, rushed straight into the ruins of downtown San Francisco as a firestorm swept toward her beloved Academy building.