The Ynés Mexía botanical collections : oral history transcript / Nina Floy Bracelin; tape recorded interview conducted by Annetta Carter, 1983 June 13. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1983.

Mexía, Ynés 1870-1938

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (1870-1938) was born on May 24, 1870, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. She lived in Texas, Philadelphia, and Mexico City before she moved to San Francisco in 1908. She was a social worker before she went to the University of California at the age of 51. There, she developed an enthusiasm for botany. In 1925, she began a series of trips to remote locations in South and Central America, and Alaska. She collected over 150,000 specimens, and more than 500 species of pla...

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Bracelin, Nina Floy.

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Carter, Annetta

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