Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (née Cary ) ( born December 5, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts, † June 27, 1907 in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts) was an American educator and naturalist, activist and the first president of Radcliffe College.

Life

Elizabeth Cary was born in 1822 in the Boston Brahmin. Because of her poor health, she received home schooling. In 1850 she married a widower, the scientist Louis Agassiz, who had emigrated together with his three children from Switzerland to the United States before ( 1849). She organized the same household, took care of the finances of the family and his children of his first marriage. She also worked closely together with her husband to his scientific studies.

Work

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz initiated by 1855-1859 the Agassiz School for Girls. She was wife of the scientist Louis Agassiz and accompanied him on his extensive travels, as to Brazil and to Galapagos, and led on the discoveries book. After the death of her husband (1873 ) she has published several books on natural history, partly jointly with her ​​stepson Alexander Agassiz. 1879 was one of the seven female managing director of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women Private (Harvard Annex). Agassiz was much more involved that the " Harvard Annex" was converted for women's education in 1894 at Harvard University in the Radcliffe College. From 1894 to 1900 this college was under her leadership, and from 1900 to 1903 she was honorary president. With its clock and their fundraising skills promoted the college and contributed significantly to its continuity. She was (as of 1869), one of the first female members of the American Philosophical Society (along with Mary Fairfax Somerville and Mary Mitchell).

Works

  • Actaea, a First Lesson in Natural History, 1859
  • "An Amazonian Picnic, " The Atlantic Monthly 17 ( March 1866): 313-323
  • "The Hassler Glacier in the Straits of Magellan, " The Atlantic Monthly 30 ( October 1872): 472-478.
  • "In the Straits of Magellan, " Atlantic Monthly 31 ( January 1873)
  • " A Cruise through the Gallapagos, " Atlantic Monthly 31 ( May 1873).
  • Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1885)
  • With A. Agassiz, Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates, 2d printing ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1871)
  • With L. Agassiz, A Journey in Brazil ( Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868)
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