C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, & the “Flora of the Pacific Slope”. Mem (120) CounterpointImport NYBG exhibitions curator

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The book is based on over 40 years of tropical plant collecting in Central and South America by the senior editor and his colleagues

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C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, & the “Flora of the Pacific Slope”. Mem (120) CounterpointImport NYBG exhibitions curatorAs one of the premier plant collectors in North America during the late nineteenth century, the work of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (18381911) was, and remains, outstanding. Far from emerging from nowhere, his illustrious career grew over the span of a decade from his earlier work in horticulture. This book first considers those years, including Pringles contributions to three scientific efforts of national scopethe 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition,