Talk:Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis

Useful biographical resource
A useful resource that can probably be used to improve the scope of this biography is "Charlotte Ellis of the Sandia Mountains" by Eugene Jercinovic (|here and |here). There are also photos of Ellis, although I don't know if they are in the public domain. The author's contact information is at the end of the second document.

Citation: "Jercinovic, Eugene. "Charlotte Ellis of the Sandia Mountains." The New Mexico Botanist 42 (21 Feb. 2008): 1-38. Print."

-Iamozy (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Calling this person a scientist
In what way is this person a scientist? She never studied, taught or wrote anything scientific. She was a frontier woman with a hard life but an interest in plants who collected some 500 voucher specimens, most now lost. I don't think that makes her a scientist. I don't consider explorers with much more extensive collections botanists, unless they actually studied or published about botany. Perhaps others believe that woman should be held to lower standards? Leo Breman (talk) 12:04, 23 August 2020 (UTC)