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Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey) Pringle
1838–1911
A tireless plant explorer, this Vermont botanist spent decades collecting and cataloging the flora of North America, especially Mexico. His fieldwork made him one of the most prolific botanical collectors of his era.
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The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones
by Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey) Pringle
About the author
Born in East Charlotte, Vermont, on May 6, 1838, he became an American botanist known for a long career documenting plants across North America. He is especially remembered for his expeditions in Mexico and for the sheer scale of his collecting work.
Over about 35 years, he built a reputation as a gifted botanical explorer and collector. Museums, archives, and later historians have credited him with discovering or helping document a remarkable number of new plant species, and his name remains familiar in botanical literature through the standard author abbreviation "Pringle."
He died in Burlington, Vermont, on May 25, 1911. Today, he is remembered not just for scientific productivity, but for the stamina, curiosity, and careful observation that shaped an enormous record of North American plant life.