Women in the field
Subtitle: America's pioneering women naturalists
By: Marcia Myers Bonta.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Women naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Includes a section on Maria Martin, a young woman from Charleston, who married Audubon's youngest son, John Woodhouse, and who "assisted in the artwork for volumes 2 and 4 of [Audubon's] The birds of America and acted as Bachman's amaneunsis during his collaboration with Audubon on The quadrupeds of North America."--Page 9.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index.