concerning primitive life in the Andes and how to become adjusted to it was invaluable." A large portion of her estate was left to the Sierra Club and the Save the Redwoods League to further environmental conservation. It was Mexía who provided funding for Vernon Orlando Bailey to create and produce his pioneering invention of more humane traps for animals. Google Doodle Mexía's legacy was recognized in the Google Doodle for September 15, 2019. PBS Short Documentary In 2020, the life of Ynés Mexía was featured in a documentary short included in the Unladylike2020 series produced by WNET for the PBS. Publications Botanical Trails in Old Mexico (1929) Plant lists, Brazil, Mexico, and South America. (1930) Brazilian ferns collected by Ynes Mexia. With Edwin Bingham Copeland. Editor University Press (1932) Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon (1933) Mrs. Ynes Mexiás Route in Ecuador, 1934-1935 (1936) Camping on the Equator (1937) See also Timeline of women in science Botanists Notes References Bibliography Bonta, Marcia (1991), Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists, Texas A&M University Press, External links Ynés Mexía collection, 1918-1966 held by the University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley Guide to the Ynés Mexía Papers at The Bancroft Library The Memory Palace Episode 107: Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds Oral history transcript of N. Floy Bracelin about Ynés Mexía, 1965 and 1967, via The Bancroft Library 1870 births 1938 deaths Women botanists People from Washington, D.C. University of California, Berkeley alumni Deaths from lung cancer in California 20th-century Mexican women scientists American women botanists American people of Mexican descent 20th-century American botanists 20th-century Mexican scientists 20th-century American women scientists