EASTWOOD, Alice
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EASTWOOD, Alice (1859-1953), Canadian-born self-taught botanist who moved to the United States at age 14. She was curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences from 1892-1950, and known as a tireless plant collector.
Eastwood visited Santa Cruz Island in 1917 in the company of the wife of the ranch superintendent, Mrs. Alanson Swain. Eastwood gave a lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in 1929, as reported in the April Leaflet: “Miss Eastwood is not only an admirable scientist, but a rare human being as well. A simple, kindly woman stood before her audience and told with utter lack of self-consciousness of experiences which not one woman in a thousand would care to undergo.” Eastwood spent six days on Santa Catalina Island July 20-25, 1917, mostly near Avalon, Gallagher’s, and the Isthmus. Her specimens are located in the California Academy of Sciences.
Eastwood died on October 30, 1953 in San Francisco, California. She was 94.
Eastwood collected on:
- Farallon Islands (1926)
- Anacapa Island (1916)
- Santa Catalina Island (1904, 1917)
- Santa Cruz Island (1917)
- 1898. Eastwood, Alice Notes on the Plants of St. Nicholas (sic) Island Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 3rd Series 3:89-120, 1898
- * Note: Alice Eastwood never visited San Nicolas Island. Blanche Trask sent her SNI specimens to Eastwood.
- 1929. Eastwood, Alice Studies in the Flora of Lower and Adjacent Islands Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 18, 4th series, 21(14):393-484
- [original in SCIF archives]
- 1933. Eastwood, Alice New manzanitas from Santa Cruz Island, California Leaflets of Western Botany 1:61-63, 1933
- 1941. Eastwood, Alice The Islands of Southern California and a List of the Recorded Plants Leaflets of Western Botany 3(2):27-36 and 3(3):54-78, 1941
- 1947. Eastwood, Alice A Collection ofPlants from the Aleutian Islands Leaflets of Western Botany 5(1):9-13, 1947
- [original in SCIF archives]
- 1957. Cantelow, E. and H. Cantelow Biographical Notes on persons in whose honor Alice Eastwood named native plants Leaflets of Western Botany 8(5):83-101, 1957
- [original in SCIF archives]
- 1949. Valjean, Nelson Alice Eastwood, Hardy Perrenial Nature Magazine 42(8):357-360, October 1949
- [original in SCIF archives]
- 1957. Cantelow, E. and H. Cantelow Biographical Notes on persons in whose honor Alice Eastwood named native plants Leaflets of Western Botany 8(5):83-101, 1957
- [original in SCIF archives]
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Island Collections~
The University & Jepson Herbaria
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Anacapa Island | Alice Eastwood | CAS | April 17, 1916 | CAS-98460 | Distichlis spicata | Plants |
| Anacapa Island | Alice Eastwood | CAS | April 17, 1916 | CAS-114035 | Salix sessilifolia | Plants |
Santa Catalina Island
1917 CAS
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Santa Cruz Island | EASTWOOD, Alice | UC | July 17, 1917 | UC-852884 | Silene laciniata major | Plants |
NOTE: WHEN WAS SHE ON SAN NICOLAS?
In the News~
September 25, 1917 [SBMP]: “…Miss Eastwood, on behalf of the Academy, very completely botanized Santa Cruz and Catalina islands. On all her exploring trips over these islands, she was accompanied by Mrs. Miller, herself an enthusiastic botanist, and when the two ladies left the sailing party to return home by rail from San Diego a short time ago, they took with then a comprehensive exhibit of the flora of the islands mentioned…”
July 18, 1919 [OC]: “Mr. and Mrs. John Steinmiller and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Eastwood are planning on taking in the Los Angeles Times vacation trip to the Yosemite of a week’s duration. This trip begins next Saturday. Mrs. Eastwood is still at Catalina Island, but the party will meet her in the city and will start from there.”
July 25, 1919 [OC]: “Mrs. H. H. Eastwood and daughters Alice, Blanche and Jean, returned Thursday night from their trip to Santa Catalina Island.”
