Victorian Lady Naturalists' Craze for Collecting

My people, the 19th-century lady naturalists, early women in science, were hunter-gatherers. They were collectors. Of shells, of ferns, of mushrooms. Their cabinets of curiosities, the Victorian wunderkammer, "played a vital role in the foundation of 19th-century museums."

The aptly named @drfrond. 

Dr. Whittingham also has Victorian Natural Historian-ed (yes, it's a verb) in a 19th-century lady naturalist historical costume with vasculum (for botanizing, yes, botanizing was a verb, for the Victorians. Let's bring it back along with the hats):

This is the look I'm going for.
HAT.

Also this: 

Women Gathering Mushrooms, from Traveaux des Champs, Camille Pissaro, 1893.

I have a basket for it. And the right Victorian hat, 19th-century headdress: my great-grandmother's lace cap bonnet.

Off I trot like the hunter-gatherers.

Image credits:

Illustrated Price List of Naturalists' Supplies and Books, Charles K. Reed, publisher, successor to E. H. Forbush, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1890.

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