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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ( née Knight ) (9 Januari 1858 – 25 Februari 1934) adalah seorang ahli botani , , dan pendidik Amerika. Ia dan suaminya, Nathaniel Lord Britton , memainkan peran penting dalam penggalangan dana dan pendirian New York Botanical Garden . Ia adalah salah satu pendiri lembaga pendahulu . Ia adalah seorang aktivis untuk perlindungan bunga liar, yang menginspirasi kegiatan cabang lokal dan pengesahan undang-undang. Elizabeth Britton memberikan kontribusi besar pada literatur tentang lumut, dengan menerbitkan 170 makalah di bidang tersebut.

• Anderson, Lewis E. (Spring 2000). "Early History of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society". The Bryologist . 103 (1): 3– 14. doi : 10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0003:ehotab]2.0.co;2 . JSTOR 3244275 . S2CID 83774247 .
• (1991). Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists . College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-489-7 .
• Britton, Nathaniel Lord (1918). Flora of Bermuda . New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. doi : 10.5962/bhl.title.1352 . Diakses tanggal October 8, 2014 .
• Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Millspaugh, Charles Frederick (June 26, 1920). The Bahama Flora . New York, NY. doi : 10.5962/bhl.title.2769 . Diakses tanggal October 8, 2014 . Pemeliharaan CS1: Lokasi tanpa penerbit ( link )
• Gager, C. Stuart (June 1940). "Elizabeth G. Britton And The Movement For The Preservation Of Native American Wild Flowers" . Journal of the New York Botanical Garden . 41 (486): 137– 142 . Diakses tanggal October 21, 2014 .
• Howe, Marshall A. (May 1934). "Elizabeth Gertrude Britton" . Journal of the New York Botanical Garden . 35 (413): 97– 103 . Diakses tanggal September 26, 2014 .
• Kass, Lee B. (1997). "Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton (1858–1934)" . Dalam Grinstein, Louise S.; Biermann, Carol A.; Rose, Rose K. (ed.). Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. hlm. 51–61 . ISBN 978-0-313-29180-7 .
• Slack, Nancy G. (1987), "American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows, and Work", dalam Abr-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda (ed.), Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789–1979 , Rutgers University Press, hlm. 77–103 , ISBN 9780813512563
• Steere, William Campbell (1971). "Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight". Dalam James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (ed.). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Vol. I. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. hlm. 243– 244.
• Buku karya dan tentang Elizabeth Gertrude Britton dari WorldCat

• Karya Elizabeth Gertrude Britton di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Botanists Database: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton entry
• Physics.purdue.edu: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton biography and photo
• Plants.jstor.org: Biography and list of associated researchers
• Encyclopedia of World Scientists entry for Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton — by Elizabeth H. Oakes .
• Marc Rothenberg, History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia − Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton entry
• Herbarium sheet of type specimen of Ponthieva brittonae