About Anna Murray Vail
Anna Murray Vail was an American botanist and the first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a student and collaborator of botanist and geologist Nathaniel Lord Britton, with whom she helped to found the New York Botanical Garden. Anna Murray Vail (January 7, 1863 – December 18, 1955) was an American botanist and the first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. Olyphant and Company, founded in 1827 by David WC Olyphant and Charles N. Vail's early education was in Europe, but by 1895 she had returned to the United States, where she worked at Columbia University with Nathaniel Lord Britton, who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden with his wife Elizabeth Gertrude Britton.
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