Four lives in science
Subtitle: women's education in the nineteenth century
By: Lois Barber Arnold.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Women scientists -- United States -- Biography.; Women in science -- United States -- History.; Women -- Education -- United States -- History.
Description: Studying with her brother at home, Maria Martin Bachman learned enough "to draw the botanical backgrounds for many of Audubon's famous bird paintings." Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps taught science in a women's seminary, "and, at the urging of her students, sought admittance to the Rensselaer School in Troy." Louisa Allen Gregory developed a "domestic science" curriculum at the University of Illinois which was the forerunner for the home economics movement in America. Florence Bascom "was the first woman to receive a Ph. D. in Science from Johns Hopkins, and she went on to teach geology at Bryn Mawr."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maria Martin Bachman; title: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps; title: Louisa C. Allen Gregory; title: Florence Bascom; title: Eunice Foot and others.