This study considers three noblewomen - Lady Amelia Hume (1751-1809), Jane Barrington (1733-1807), and Mary Watson-Wentworth, Marchioness of Rockingham (c. 1735-1804) - whose contributions to plant studies were so important that Linnean Society President James Edward Smith dedicated three books to them. Their skills in cultivating newly imported exotic plants rivaled those of elite nurserymen, and taxonomists of the highest caliber came to depend on them to unlock information encoded within flowers to enable classification and publication. Eventually, the women played strategic roles within national scientific studies of the world's plants orchestrated by Smith, Joseph Banks, and William Roxburgh. The stories of Hume, Barrington, and Rockingham complicate our understandings of the gendered, professional, and disciplinary hierarchies of knowledge that constituted British science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They also resituate the domestic hothouse as a publicly engaged laboratory and museum.

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私家花园中的公共科学：贵族妇女园艺家和英国植物学的制作 c. 1785–1810 年

这项研究考虑了三位贵族女性——阿米莉亚·休姆夫人 (1751-1809)、简·巴林顿 (1733-1807) 和罗金厄姆侯爵夫人玛丽·沃森-温特沃斯 (c. 1735-1804)——她们对植物研究的贡献非常重要，以至于林奈协会主席詹姆斯·爱德华·史密斯 (James Edward Smith) 为他们奉献了三本书。他们培育新进口的外来植物的技能可与精英苗圃相媲美，最高水平的分类学家开始依赖他们来解锁花中编码的信息，以便进行分类和出版。最终，这些女性在史密斯、约瑟夫·班克斯和威廉·罗克斯堡精心策划的世界植物国家科学研究中发挥了战略作用。休谟、巴林顿和罗金厄姆的故事使我们对性别、专业、以及构成 18 世纪末和 19 世纪初英国科学的知识的学科等级。他们还将家庭温室重新定位为公共实验室和博物馆。