Botany - The First Proponents of Botany

The first proponents of fern lecting were women. It was hugely women who at the time would hve had to have been chaperoned if they were in public. And then what happened around 18 50 is some male scientists didn't like this, and they created the field of botany almost as a way to exclude women. Whereby science got into these rigid fields where all of a sudden certain people felt excluded from it, or even scared to talk about it. I think that's a really sad thing. You get gein.