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__NOTOC__ 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, located in San Francisco. She published over 310 scientific articles. There are seventeen currently recognized species named for her, as well as the genera ''Eastwoodia'' and ''Aliciella''. ==Biography== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/library/special/findaids/eastwood.html#ref24 )〕 In 1879, she graduated as valedictorian〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=eastwood-alice-1859-1953-cr.xml )〕 from Shawa Convent Catholic High School, located in Denver. For the next ten years, Eastwood would teach at her alma mater, forgoing a college education. She was a self-taught botanist, and relied on knowledge from published botany manuals including Grey’s Manual and the Flora of Colorado.〔 Her botanical knowledge led her to being asked to guide Alfred Russel Wallace up the summit of Grey's Peak in Denver. Eastwood was also a member of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell's Colorado Biological Association. In 1891, after reviewing Eastwood’s specimen collection in Denver, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Curator of the Botany Department at the California Academy of Sciences, hired Eastwood to assist in the Academy’s Herbarium.〔 There Eastwood oversaw tremendous growth of the Herbarium.〔 In 1892, Eastwood was promoted to a position as joint curator of the Academy with Brandegee. By 1894, with the retirement of Brandegee, Eastwood was procurator and Head of the Department of Botany, a position she held until her 1949 retirement. She died in San Francisco on October 30, 1953. The Academy retains a collection of her papers and works.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Eastwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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