{"id":98,"date":"2026-04-30T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:27:24","slug":"lydia-shattuck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/lydia-shattuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Shattuck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/node\/1389384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-669x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-669x1024.jpeg 669w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-768x1176.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-1003x1536.jpeg 1003w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-1338x2048.jpeg 1338w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria001-scaled.jpeg 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lydia Shattuck was head of the Botany Department from 1851 to 1889 and a member of the class of 1851. When botany was not in season, she taught chemistry. Shattuck\u2019s research focused on the classification of plants and setting up collections, eventually creating a herbarium of over 7,000 plants from around the world for Mount Holyoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydia Shattuck was head of the Botany Department from 1851 to 1889 and a member of the class of 1851. When botany was not in season, she taught chemistry. Shattuck\u2019s research focused on the classification of plants and setting up collections, eventually creating a herbarium of over 7,000 plants from around the world for Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}