Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, née Elizabeth Gertrude Knight (January 9, 1858 - February 25, 1934), was an American botanist and bryologist born in New York City. She spent her childhood in Cuba and New York City, and graduated from Hunter College in 1875.
She married, in 1885, fellow botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, the founder of the New York Botanical Garden. Both were members of the Torrey Botanical Club at the time they married. Her early specialty was the mosses, and she later became curator of mosses at the Botanical Garden. She founded the Sullivant Moss Society, which later became the American Bryological Society.
In 1902, Elizabeth Britton founded the Wildflower Preservation Society of America.
Elizabeth Britton published more than 350 papers. The moss genus Bryobrittonia is named after her.
She died in The Bronx, New York.
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