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Mary Beal

Illustration — Mary Beal and John Burroughs, standing outside her tent home on the Dix Van Dyke ranch in 1911 Mary Beal (1878–1964) was a botanist who spent most of her life in Daggett, California, living at the ranch of local judge Dix Van Dyke. Though an amateur, she was praised by Willis Linn Jepson for her excellent botanical specimens, and many of these are stored permanently in the University and Jepson Herbaria. She wrote a regular botany column for the Desert Magazine from 1939 to 1953.

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Mary Beal

Mary Beal and John Burroughs, standing outside her tent home on the Dix Van Dyke ranch in 1911.

Reproduced in Calico: Images of America, by Paige M. Peyton, 2012. · Public domain

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1878
Died
1964

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Illustration — Mary Beal and John Burroughs, standing outside her tent home on the Dix Van Dyke ranch in 1911 Mary Beal (1878–1964) was a botanist who spent most of her life in Daggett, California, living at the ranch of local judge Dix Van Dyke. Though an amateur, she was praised by Willis Linn Jepson for her excellent botanical specimens, and many of these are stored permanently in the University and Jepson Herbaria. She wrote a regular botany column for the Desert Magazine from 1939 to 1953.

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