The Keystone Women of British and Irish Botany 1856 to 1932

The network of botanists created from herbarium specimens from 1856 to 1932. Each dot represents a botanist, each line represents a connection between the botanists. These links between people are that they either collected together, swapped specimens or determined each others specimens. Botanists with only one connection have been filtered out to improve readability and also highlight the most connected botanists. The network has been partitioned into 9 modularity classes to give a rough indication of community structure. Only Woman botanists have been named in order to show how well integrated they were into the network of botanists at the time.