Clara Eaton Cummings

American cryptogamic botanist and university teacher (1855-1906).

Born July 13th, 1855 in Plymouth. [ref]

Died December 28th, 1906 at 51 years old in Concord. [ref]

Occupations
botanical collector, botanist, curator, editor, mycologist

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks