| LC control no. | no2004054741 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brandegee, Katharine Layne, 1844-1920 |
| Variant(s) | Curran, Mary K. (Mary Katharine), 1844-1920 Layne, Mary Katharine, 1844-1920 |
| Associated country | California |
| Birth date | 1844-10-28 |
| Death date | 1920-04-03 |
| Field of activity | Botany Medicine |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley California Academy of Sciences |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists Physicians |
| Found in | Variation in Oenothera ovata, 1914: t.p. (Katharine Layne Brandegee) Botanical notes, 1885: t.p. (Mary K. Curran) Am. nat. biog., 1999: v. 3, p. 414 (Brandegee, Mary Katharine Layne Curran; b. Oct. 28, 1844; d. Apr. 3, 1920; born Mary Katharine Layne; physician and botanist; marr. when 21 to Hugh Curran; marr. T.S. Brandegee in 1889) Crump, Martha L. Women in field biology, 2023: page 46 (Katharine (Layne) Brandegee (1844-1920 was born in Tennessee) ; medical school at University of California, Berkeley ; worked at the California Academy of Sciences, became curator of botany) Wikipedia web site, May 14, 2024: (Mary Katharine Brandegee (formerly Curran, née Layne; October 28, 1844-April 3, 1920) was an American botanist known for her comprehensive studies of flora in California. Brandegee was born Mary Katharine Layne in Tennessee on October 28, 1844. Brandegee died on April 3, 1920, in Berkeley, California ; moved to San Francisco to attend medical school at the University of California at Berkeley, becoming the third woman to ever matriculate there ; she studied medicinal plants and became interested in botany ; She received her M.D. in 1878, became licensed in California, and became a member of the California State Medical Society, but chose not to practice medicine ; Brandegee became a member at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She collected plants throughout the state and worked in the academy's herbarium to continue her botanical training ; in 1883, Brandegee became the academy's botany curator ; resigned in 1893 ; Brandegee and Townshend relocated in 1894 to San Diego. They settled in the Bankers Hill area and established a brick herbarium and San Diego's first botanical garden on their property. Together, they collected plants throughout California, Arizona, and Mexico After the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the couple moved back and donated over 76,000 specimens from their personal collection to the University of California, Berkeley) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Katharine_Brandegee> California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939 via Ancestry.com, May 14, 2024: (Katharin L. Brandegee, [Mary Katharine Layne, Mary Katharine Layne Brandegee, Mary Katharine Layne Curran] ; d. 3 April 1920, Alameda, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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