THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
Botany
   Vasculum
   Rubus Hanesii
   Lodoicea Maldivica
   Field, Forest, & Garden Botany
   Botanical Gazette
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel


BOTANY

Carex

Beginning with his childhood interest, Bailey became an acknowledged authority on the American sedges (genus Carex). His first paper, “Carex,” appeared in 1884 in the Botanical Gazette, following by nineteen more articles before 1900. On his 1888 trip to Europe, he visited every important herbarium west of Russia and studied and photographed specimens of Carextypes. He used a cumbersome plate camera, with plates shipped from Rochester, N.Y., probably the first application of photography for this purpose.


Botanical Gazette, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1884, “Notes on Carex. I”; Vol. 9, No. 8, September 1884, “Notes on Carex. II. ”

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