Helen Adelaide Wood

Helen Adelaide Wood
Born
17 August 1860 (1860-08-17)
Died25 November 1927 (1927-11-26) (aged 67)
Jamaica
NationalityEnglish
OccupationBotanical illustrator
Orchidaceae by H. A. Wood included in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany
The Cactaceae (Plate XXXVI) (6026512628)
The Cactaceae (Plate XVIII) (6025951147).jpg
The Cactaceae (Plate XIX) (6025951379).jpg
Dendrophylax funalis by Helen Adelaide Wood for Flora of Jamaica volume 1

Helen Adelaide Wood (August 17, 1860 – November 25, 1927)[1] was a British botanical artist and scientific illustrator best known for the collection of her illustrations held at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica.[2][3] She is also known for illustrating at least one print and three watercolours in Britton & Rose's The Cactaceae, published between 1919 and 1923.[2] The collection of her artwork in the Natural History Museum of Jamaica has been inscribed on the UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Memory of the World Register.[4] Along with the Natural History Museum of Jamaica, Wood's artwork is also held in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History.[2][5] She was one of the first women museum workers in the Caribbean and was employed at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica from 1912 to 1927.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ "Helen Adelaide Wood". geni_family_tree. 17 August 1860. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "The Helen Adelaide Wood Collection" (PDF). www.nlj.gov.jm. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  3. ^ Gloudon, Ancile (1983). "An Orchid portfolio : watercolours by Helen Adelaide Wood and H.Q. Levy". Jamaica Journal. 16 (2): 37–40. OCLC 82024893.
  4. ^ "Tenth Meeting of MOWLAC Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean UNESCO Memory of the World Program Mexico City" (PDF). mowlac.files.wordpress.com. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Opuntia jamaicensis". collections.nmnh.si.edu. 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  6. ^ Cummins, Alissandra (1991). "The role of women in Caribbean museum development – where are we now?". Museum International. 43 (3): 140–143. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1991.tb00974.x.
  7. ^ "Jamaica's rich fauna and flora". Jamaica Observer. 19 November 2017. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  8. ^ Farr, Thomas H. (1985). "Early Years of the Natural History Division" (PDF). Jamaican Journal. 18 (2): 19–28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.