Latin America and Caribbean

Consider: Arabic, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Mayan, Andean Quipu, Roman, Sumerian, Yoruba, etc.

             

           

           

           

Chase was both a botanist and an activist for women’s rights to vote...

Mexia found her calling late in life, but her contributions to botany are impressive...

Cuban Doctor Carlos Finlay successfully identified mosquitos as the vector for the transmission of deadly Yellow Fever...

Although long portrayed as merely an illustrator, Merian’s close observation of the ecology and life cycles of insects influenced later naturalists...