Four lives in science : women's education in the nineteenth century / Lois Barber Arnold.

Four lives in science : women's education in the nineteenth century / Lois Barber Arnold.

New York : Schocken Books, 1984.

English

xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Q141 .A73 1984

509/.2/2 B

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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