Tag: Botany Dept. Trinity College Dublin

Ireland's first Female Botanist

Ellen in Dublin: exhibition in the Botany Department, Trinity College

20/01/2017

Celebrating Ellen Hutchins: Trinity College Dublin The Ellen Hutchins exhibition in Trinity College Dublin has now closed. On display were some wonderful specimens of seaweed that Ellen collected in Bantry Bay over two hundred years ago. These are held in the Herbarium at Trinity, and are on display here for the first time ever. Alongside…
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Looking for Ellen’s specimens in Trinity College Dublin and a Homecoming for her seaweed drawings.

16/11/2015

Earlier this year, Professor John Parnell of the Botany Department of Trinity College Dublin helped a small team of Ellen Hutchins researchers to hunt in the Herbarium there for specimens of seaweeds, mosses, or lichens collected by Ellen in the Bantry Bay area more than 200 years ago. The story of the search for them…
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