Herbarium scientist, University of California, Davis

By

McCaskill, June, 1930-

Lage, Ann.
Tucker, John M.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

Type

Book

Publication info

Berkeley, Calif, University of California, c1989

Notes

Interview is part of the Women in Botany Project.

She discusses her lifetime association with plants and horticulturists , beginning with her family's nursery, McCaskill Gardens in Pasadena. After graduation from Mills College she was hired by botanist John M. Tucker as an assistant in the University of California, Davis, herbarium. She speaks of her curatorial work in preserving, identifying, cataloging, and making available over one hundred thousand plant specimens. She was active in founding the Friends of the Davis Arboretum.

Subjects

Arboretums , Botanical gardens , Botanists , Botany , California , Friends of the Davis Arboretum, Davis, Calif , Herbarium , Interviews , McCaskill Gardens (Pasadena, Calif.) , Oral histories , University of California, Davis , University of California, Davis. Arboretum

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.19196
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51427225