Perkins, Anne Elizabeth (1873c.1961)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Anne Elizabeth
Last name
Perkins
Initials
A.E.
Life Dates
1873 - 1961
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM, CU (currently BH), GH, NCU, NEBC, NY, NYS, P
Countries
Central American Continent: MexicoCaribbean region: Puerto RicoNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Kowal, Robert R. (1939-) (co-collector)
Biography
American physician and amateur botanist and ornithologist. Born in Wells, Maine, Anne Perkins graduated as doctor of medicine from Boston University in 1897.

She settled in Collins, New York, and worked as a physician at Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital in Erie County from 1906-1932. Her spare time she devoted to botany and ornithology, acquiring skill in both. She collected plants mainly in her own locale of western New York, acquiring many rare specimens. As well as publishing many papers in medical journals she contributed regularly to the ornithological journal The Auk and was a corresponding member of the Botanical Section of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.

Sources:
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 3: 69
L. Giencke, 2005, Collectors of the University of North Carolina Herbarium: Dr. Anne Elizabeth Perkins:
http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Perkins.htm.
References
Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 74; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 667;
Perkins, Anne Elizabeth (1873c.1961)
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