Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953

Eastwood was curator and later head of the Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, 1849-1949. She was responsible for saving the Academy's type collection after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. While at the Academy, she carried out much collecting to build up the collection, published over 300 articles, and started a journal, Leaflets of Western botany. Her main botanical interests were west American Liliaceae and the genera Lupinus, Arctostaphylos and Castilleja.

From the description of Manuscripts relating to lupines, 1938-1946 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 41078423

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