Facts: - death place: washington , d.c. - alt: mary jane rathbun working with crab specimens . - caption: mary j. rathbun at work - fields: carcinology - death date: 14 april 1943 - workplaces: smithsonian institution - author abbrev zoo: rathbun - birth date: 11 june 1860 - name: mary jane rathbun - nationality: american - image: mary crab specimens.jpg jane rathbun -lrb- 1860-1943 -rrb- , working with - birth place: buffalo , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mary j. rathbun .
mary j. rathbun -lrb- 1860 -- 1943 -rrb- was an american zoologist who specialized in crustaceans .she worked at the smithsonian institution , often unaided , from 1884 until her death .she described more than a thousand new species and subspecies and many higher taxa .