Pioneer woman botanist honored

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 07:01 in Earth & Climate

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. biologist says he's named a new species of plant for a Frenchwoman who disguised herself as a man to join a 1766 global circumnavigation for science.

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