Peter Bernhardt
speaker
140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Peter Bernhardt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At the end of these meetings he would announce, It's been absolutely lovely.
But I have to scream now.
Additional cabinets testify to the thoroughness of the staff of the Gardens Museums, Archives, and Library.
Here was the original cover of Time magazine from the twenty sixth of April, nineteen ninety nine, naming him Hero of the Planet, while caricaturing him in a Superman cape.
There was a copy of his co-authored university textbook, Biology of Plants.
I taught from that book for over thirty years through six of its eight editions.
Here was a pressed specimen of the first plant species Raven described as a lad of seventeen with botanist D.
H.
Lewis.
It was Clarkia Franciscana, a Californian wildflower.
Peter Raven later became a specialist on Clarkias and their relatives the fuchsia, sun drops, evening primroses, and fireweeds all placed in the family on a Gracie.
The auditorium was tastefully decorated with fresh arrangements of white or pastel colored roses, canterbury bells, carnations, and some hybrids of Australian rock orchids.
A violinist and cellist played classical duets as we watched a revolving slideshow of Raven's life, including a photo of the young, still-bearded botanist holding a baby wombat in front of a background that looked like the Australian Alps or Tasmanian Highlands.
He came to Australia and New Zealand in the 1960s to collect native fireworks.
weeds to revise the genus Epilobium.
During the service, I felt that Raven's zeal and contributions as a scientist took a back seat to the praise he received from the good and the great, including former trustees of the Garden, the current mayor of St.
Louis, representatives from the National Academy of Science, the Bezos Earth Fund,
three American universities and others, but some things can't be suppressed.
Most of the audience knew Peter Raven was born in Shanghai, China to missionary parents, but how many learned that day he spent over 20 years co-editing the flora of China?
His Chinese colleagues thanked him repeatedly for integrating Chinese botany into the rest of the scientific world.
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