Jane Colden, American botanist and author (died 1766)

Jane Colden

18th-century American botanist (1724-1766)

Jane Colden was an American botanist, described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by Asa Gray in 1843. Although not acknowledged in contemporary botanical publications, she wrote a number of letters resulting in botanist John Ellis writing to Carl Linnaeus of her…