wondered how it would feel to be held up and really it was not so bad at all." She was president of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, council member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and director of the American Horticultural Society. She became a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1941. Her garden was permanently endowed as the Henry Foundation for Botanical Research in 1950. Family She married John Norman Henry, a physician, in 1909. Death and legacy In April 1967, Henry died in North Carolina on a collecting trip. Her private botanical garden has now become the nonprofit Henry Foundation for Botanical Research, and is open to the public. See also Henry Foundation for Botanical Research References American botanists American women botanists 1967 deaths 1884 births 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American scientists