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1.
Botanical entanglements : women, natural science, and the arts in eighteenth-century England / Anna K. Sagal. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH21.G7 S24 2022.
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Expedition backyard : exploring nature from country to city / Rosemary Mosco and Binglin Hu ; color design by Ashanti Fortson ; flatting assistance by Desolina Fletcher. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction ; Audience: Primary;
Publisher: New York : Random House Graphic, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PZ7.7.M6726 Ex 2022.
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Illuminating natural history : the art and science of Mark Catesby / Henrietta McBurney. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021Copyright date: ©2021
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH41.C33 QH41.C33 M38 M38 2021.
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Diary of a young naturalist / Dara McAnulty. by
Edition: First US edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2021Copyright date: ©2020
Availability: No items available.
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The multifarious mr banks : from botany bay to kew, the natural historian who shaped the world / Toby Musgrave. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The planter of modern life : Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution / Stephen Heyman. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PS3503.R66 Z756 2020.
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Georg Forster : voyager, naturalist, revolutionary / J urgen Goldstein ; translated by Anne Janusch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English, German Publisher: Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2019]Copyright date: 2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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A way to garden : a hands-on primer for every season / Margaret Roach. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB450.97 .R63 2019.
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What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing / Karen Magnuson Beil. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019Manufacturer: [Stevens Point (Wisc.)] : Worzalla ; 2019Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH44 .B45 2019.
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Nature's friend : the Gwen Frostic story / written by Lindsey McDivitt & illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: [Ann Arbor, MI] : Sleeping Bear Press, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: NX512 .F76 M39 2018.
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The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science / Joyce Sidman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL31 .M53 S53 2018.
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Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Arthur MacGregor. by Series: Emergence of Natural History ; Volume 2
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]Copyright date: 2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Arthur MacGregor. by Series: Emergence of natural history ; volume 2.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Other title:
  • Collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH15 .N26 2018.
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The wasp and the orchid : the remarkable life of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman / Danielle Clode. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Publisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, 2018Copyright date: ©2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.C59 C56 2018.
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Out of school and into nature : the Anna Comstock story / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Jessica Lanan. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2017]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.C72 S53 2017.
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Karl, get out of the garden! : Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything / Anita Sanchez ; illustrated by Catherine Stock. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.L69 S26 2017.
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Bibliography of natural history travel narratives / A.S. Troelstra. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Zeist, The Netherlands : KNNV Publishing, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH11.Z99 T76 2016.
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Aldo Leopold's Odyssey / Julianne Lutz Warren. by
Edition: Tenth anniversary edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Washington ; Covelo ; London : Island Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016
Other title:
  • Rediscovering the author of A Sand County almanac
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
19.
Henry David Thoreau for kids : his life and ideas, with 21 activities / Corinne Hosfeld Smith. by Series: --for kids (Chicago, Ill.)
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Chicago, [Illinois] : Chicago Review Press, 2016Copyright date: 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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James Sowerby : the enlightenment's natural historian / Paul Henderson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Richmond, Surrey, UK : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.S625 H46 2015.
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The Invention of Nature : Alexander Von Humboldt's New World. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Westminster : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015Copyright date: 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Texas Master Naturalist statewide curriculum / edited by Michelle M. Haggerty, Mary Pearl Meuth. by Series: Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / Andrea Wulf. by
Edition: First American edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Copyright date: ©2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: Q143.H9 W85 2015. Not available: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Lost (1).
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Studying Wisconsin : the life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, mounds and all things Wisconsin / Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes ; designed by Nancy Warnecke. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2014Copyright date: 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Deep things out of darkness : a history of natural history / John G. T. Anderson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH15 .A72 2013.
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The bluebird effect [electronic resource] : uncommon bonds with common birds / Julie Zickefoose. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory [electronic resource] : a century of discovering the nature of nature / Michael J. Lannoo. by Series: A Bur oak book
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The species seekers : heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / Richard Conniff. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH26 .C66 2011.
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William Bartram, the search for nature's design : selected art, letters, and unpublished writings / edited by Thomas Hallock & Nancy E. Hoffmann ; Joel T. Fry, associate editor. by Series: Wormsloe Foundation nature book
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.B232 A4 2010.
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On Harper's trail : Roland McMillan Harper, pioneering botanist of the southern coastal plain / Elizabeth Findley Shores. by
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .H26 S56 2010.
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Monkey puzzle man : Archibald Menzies, plant hunter / James McCarthy. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Scotland, England : Whittles Pub., 2008Copyright date: 2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Maria Sibylla Merian & daughters : women of art and science / Ella Reitsma ; assisted by Sandrine Ulenberg ; [translation, Lynne Richards]. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Amsterdam : Los Angeles : Zwolle : Rembrandt House Museum ; J. Paul Getty Museum ; Waanders, 2008
Other title:
  • Maria Sibylla Merian and daughters
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.M4516 A4 2008.
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Nature's beloved son : rediscovering John Muir's botanical legacy / Bonnie J. Gisel ; with images by Stephen J. Joseph ; foreword by David Rains Wallace. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.M78 G57 2008.
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A passion for nature : Thomas Jefferson and natural history / by Keith Thomson. by Series: Monticello monograph series
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Charlottesville, Va.] : Chapel Hill, N.C. : Thomas Jefferson Foundation ; Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Other title:
  • Thomas Jefferson and natural history
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.T47 T46 2008.
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The ladyslipper and I / G. Ledyard Stebbins ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Eileen P. Duggan ; foreword by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis. by Series: Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden ; v. 109
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: St. Louis : Missouri Botanical Garden, 2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.S6435 A3 2007.
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Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby. by Series: Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden ; v. 100
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: St. Louis : Missouri Botanical Garden Press, c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.B37 E93 2007x.
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The curious Mister Catesby [videorecording] / executive producer, David J. Elliott ; producer & director, Cynthia P. Neal ; Catesby Commemorative Trust ; a production of Marsh Elder Productions LLC. by
Material type: Film Film; Type of visual material: videorecording
Publication details: [Kiawah Island, SC?] : Catesby Commemorative Trust, c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (2)Call number: DVD, ...
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The art and science of William Bartram / Judith Magee. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: University Park, Pa. : London : Pennsylvania State University Press ; In association with the Natural History Museum, c2007
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.B23 M34 2007.
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Twentieth century champions of parks and conservation. Vol. 1, The Pugsley Medal recipients 1928-1964 / John L. Crompton. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Champaign, Ill.?] : Sagamore Publishing, L.L.C., c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB481.5 .C76 2007.
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Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis / Kim Todd. by
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.M4516 T63 2007.
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"Good observers of nature" [electronic resource] : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / Tina Gianquitto. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Strange blooms : the curious lives and adventures of the John Tradescants / Jennifer Potter. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Atlantic, 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61.T7 P8.
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Aldo Leopold's odyssey [electronic resource] / Julianne Lutz Newton. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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California's frontier naturalists [electronic resource] / Richard G. Beidleman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Washington, D.C. ; Covelo, California : Island Press / Shearwater Books, [2006]Copyright date: 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Quaker plant hunters : from North America's early frontier to the South Pacific : John & William Bartram of Philadelphia then Sydney Parkinson on Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage / by David Sox. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: York, England : Sessions Book Trust, c2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .S731.
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America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777 / edited by Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne. by Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 243
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .B3.
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque : a voice in the American wilderness / Leonard Warren. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004Copyright date: 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The flower hunter : William Bartram, America's first naturalist / Deborah Kogan Ray. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Primary;
Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, c2004
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB457 .R263f.
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Profiles of Rafinesque / edited by Charles Boewe. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2003
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.R13 P76 2003.
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