Jane Colden

Jane Colden

Jane Colden (March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766) was an American botanist,: 53–4  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 work applying the Linnaean system of plant identification to American flora, for which botanist Peter Collinson stated "she deserves to be celebrated".: 54  Contemporary scholarship maintains that she was the first female botanist working in America, which ignores, among others, Maria Sibylla Merian or Catherine Jérémie. Colden was respected as a botanist by many prominent botanists including John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Alexander Garden, and Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Colden has received more than 50,166 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Colden is the 807th most popular biologist (down from 735th in 2019), the 8,048th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,204th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Biologist.