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American women afield : writings by pioneering women naturalists

Title
American women afield : writings by pioneering women naturalists / edited by Marcia Myers Bonta.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
Bonta, Marcia, 1940-
Description
xvi, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science - a field long dominated by men.
  • Marcia Myers Bonta has collected the most charming and sensitive writings of twenty-five women naturalists of the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries and supplemented them with well-researched biographical profiles.
  • From Susan Fenimore Cooper's early warnings about the profligate use of natural resources to Mary Treat's tenacious defense of her scientific discoveries, from Alice Eastwood's defiance of convention to Caroline Dormon's, Lucy Braun's, and Rachel Carson's impassioned pleas to save the earth, American Women Afield catalogs the determination and devotion of these early scientists and acknowledges their invaluable contributions to ornithology, entomology, botany, agrostology, and ecology.
Series Statement
Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment series ; no. 20
Uniform Title
Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment series ; no. 20.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248).
Contents
  • Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Summer, from Rural Hours / Graceanna Lewis -- Birds and Their Friends / Mary Treat -- Plants That Eat Animals, from Home Studies in Nature / Martha Maxwell -- From On the Plains and among the Peaks; or How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection, by Mary Dartt / Annie Trumbull Slosson -- Experiences of a Collector Collecting on Biscayne Bay, Part II / Katharine Dooris Sharp -- The Woman Botanist, from Summer in a Bog / Althea Sherman -- The Home Life of the Chimney Swift, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard -- Down with the House Wren Boxes, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard / Elizabeth Gifford Peckham -- Communal Life, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham -- Ammophila and Her Caterpillars, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham / Alice Eastwood -- Letter: May 7, 1906 In Portu Bodega / Florence Merriam Bailey -- Ruffed Grouse: Partridge, from Birds through an Opera Glass --
  • Long-Billed Marsh Wren, from Birds of Village and Field -- Camping under the Stars on the Way Up, from Among the Birds in the Grand Canyon Country / Anna Botsford Comstock -- A Dweller in Tents, from Ways of the Six-Footed / Cordelia Stanwood -- The Hermit Thrush: The Voice of the Northern Woods -- Tenants of Birdsacre / Agnes Chase -- Eastern Brazil through an Agrostologist's Spectacles / Ynes Mexia -- Camping on the Equator -- Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon / Mary Sophie Young -- Mary S. Young's Journal of Botanical Explorations in Trans-Pecos, Texas, August-September, 1914 / Edith Clements -- Ecology and World War I, from Adventures in Ecology / Edith Patch -- Marooned in a Potato Field / Ann Haven Morgan -- Mayflies: Ephemerida (Plectoptera), from Field Book of Ponds and Streams -- Fresh-Water Sponges in Winter / Margaret Morse Nice -- The Awakening, from Research Is a Passion with Me -- On Watching an Ovenbird's Nest, from The Watcher at the Nest --
  • The Grandchildren of Uno and 4M, from The Watcher at the Nest / Nellie Harris Rau -- Behavior of Pompilid Wasps, from Wasp Studies Afield, with Phil Rau / Amelia Laskey -- Watching a Carolina Wren's Nest / Caroline Dormon -- Camping in the Kisatchie Wold / E. Lucy Braun -- The Forest of Lynn Fork of Leatherwood / Ruth Harris Thomas -- From Crip, Come Home / Rachel Carson -- Sea Pansies, from The Edge of the Sea -- Basket Starfish, from The Edge of the Sea -- The Other Road, from Silent Spring.
ISBN
  • 0890966338 (cloth)
  • 0890966346 (paper)
LCCN
94003664
OCLC
  • 30780033
  • ocm30780033
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries