Beatrix Potter: Mycologist
In a time when women weren’t allowed to be scientists, Beatrix Potter was somewhat of a rebel. She was drawn to mycology, and the arbitrary rules weren’t enough to keep her from studying and learning.
For her, art and science were connected; two parts of a whole. Fungi fascinated her, and she loved drawing the different specimens she found while she was studying them. Accuracy was so important to her that, even though they weren’t recognized at the time, her drawings are used today, 76 years after her death, for identification and learning purposes.
