Crunch Berries Merch

Description: Plate from the New York Public Library collection of botanical illustrations. The only woman on any expedition of the 18th and 19th centuries, Pamela Lowe was the ship’s botanist. What she named the “Beast Island Berry” is more commonly known today as the Crunch Berry, after the expedition’s Captain, H.M. Crunch

Description: “Island Beast”, from the JOURNALS OF J. WARD, naturalist on the U.S.S. Guppy. A later illustration based on sketches from the 1810-1812 expedition. First edition, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1819. Joseph Cohen Ward 1789-1858.