Alice Eastwood

Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood
Born	January 19, 1859; Toronto, Canada West
Died	October 30, 1953 (aged 94); San Francisco, California, United States
Resting place	Toronto Necropolis
	Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Institutions	California Academy of Sciences; Gray Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden; British Museum; Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew;
Author abbrev. (botany)	Eastw.

Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She published over 310 scientific articles and authored 395 land plant species names, the fourth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. There are seventeen currently recognized species named for her, as well as the genera Eastwoodia and Aliciella.

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