Maria Sibylla Merian: The Dawn of Field Ecology in the Forests of Suriname, 1699–1701

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I would like to express my thanks to the staff at the Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Gardens, in particular Mia D'Avanza, Marie Long, Emma Antobam, and Chris Pierce, without whose help the writing of this essay would not have been possible.Maria Sibylla Merian, n.d, by de Bâle. Additional informationNotes on contributorsLizabeth Paravisini-GebertLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is Randolph Distinguished Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College. Professor Paravisini is the author of numerous books, among them The Literature of the Caribbean (2008) and Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Literature and Culture, co-edited with Ivette Romero Cesareo (2008). She is currently at work on José Martí: A Life