Edith Clements received her PhD in Botany from University of Nebraska in 1904. Her husband Frederic was also a botanist. The Clements spent many years traveling the US together doing research and teaching.
Edith was an illustrator. She drew plants for her own books and other publications.
Edith kept diaries of their travels. In an entry from 1915 she describes the heat in Nevada. "I have just tested the temperature of the pillows with my clinical thermometer, and find they have a fever of 102.4. I can almost burn myself on the brass bedstead. And yet, contrary mortals that we are, we are reveling in it."
Follow in their footsteps in the Edith and Frederic Clements papers at UW's American Heritage Center.