Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science

Orra White Hitchcock’s drawings of mammoths and other extinct vertebrates, on display at "Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863)," an exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum, in New York, July 24, 2018. Hitchcock was one of the country’s best botanical illustrators and artists, from an age when women were equal partners in scientific study. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)