Henry Hurd Rusby

Henry Hurd Rusby (1855–1940) was an American botanist, pharmacist and explorer. He discovered several new species of plants

He joined a series of expeditions from 1880 and 1921

Although trained as a physician, Rusby chose to leave medicine for his interest in plants.

On January 26, 1898, Rusby was designated the "Honorary Curator of the Museum of Economic Botany. "Report of Work on the Mulford Biological Exploration of 1921–22". Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 23(272): 101–111, August 1922. "New Species of Trees of Medicinal Interest from Bolivia". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 49: 259–264, September 1922; & Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, October 1922. "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley, 1921–1922,". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 7: 205–387, March 1927. Autobiography, Jungle Memories. 1933. Rusby edited several exsiccatae, among others the series Plantae Bolivianae a Miguel Bang lectae together with Nathaniel Lord Britton.