Take virtual trip to the arctic with Dorothy Newton Swales, McGill’s “mother of botany”

Published: 20 April 2023

Heather Rogers, a Digital Humanities student at MA, has taken her research on Dorothy Newton Swales (BSc Plant Pathology, 1921; MSc Bacteriology 1922; Ph.D. University of Manitoba, Mycology 1931)...

200 years of McGill’s Botanical history inspires Montreal artists

Published: 23 June 2022

Two-hundred years ago, a young man frequented swamps, stream banks and thickets, collecting wild plants across what would become the urban core of the city of Montreal. He had recently returned...

McGill’s botanical history inspires Montreal artists

Published: 9 May 2022

Two public art projects launching in Montreal this summer take inspiration from the botanical collection of Dr. Andrew Holmes, one of the founders of McGill's Faculty of Medicine.

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