Title: Four lives in science
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.
Subjects: History, Women in science, Women scientists, Education, Biography, Women, Scientists
Places: United States