Harriet Sheppard

Henrietta "Harriet" Sheppard, née Campbell (1786–1858) was a Canadian naturalist and botanist. She was noted for studying and publishing on birds, shells, and plants of the Quebec region.^[1] Working with Anne Mary Perceval and Christian Ramsay (Lady Dalhousie) she collected plants of the region.^[2][3][4] Along with Perceval, Ramsay, and Mary Brenton, she was a contributor to William Jackson Hooker’s Flora boreali-Americana (1829–1840).^[5][6][7]

The standard author abbreviation Sheppard is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[8]

References

1. Creese, Mary R. S.; Creese, Thomas M. (2010). Ladies in the Laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women in Science: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Scarecrow Press. pp. 139–140. ISBN 9780810872899. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
2. Huneault, Kristina (2018). I'm Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 152–161. ISBN 9780773554030.
3. "Botany History | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
4. Shteir, Ann; Cayouette, Jacques (2019). "Collecting with "botanical friends": Four Women in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland". Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 41 (1): 1–30. doi:10.7202/1056314ar. ISSN 0829-2507.
5. Hooker, William Jackson; Hooker, William Jackson (1829). Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America : compiled principally from the plants collected by Dr. Richardson & Mr. Drummond on the late northern expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. To which are added (by permission of the Horticultural society of London,) those of Mr. Douglas, from north-west America, and of other naturalists. London, H.G. Bohn.
6. Shteir, Ann; Cayouette, Jacques (2019-02-21). "Collecting with "botanical friends": Four Women in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland". Scientia Canadensis. 41 (1): 1–30. doi:10.7202/1056314ar. ISSN 1918-7750.
7. Shteir, Ann, ed. (2022-08-09). Flora's Fieldworkers. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-2280-1346-4.
8. International Plant Names Index.  Sheppard.