Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz | |
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| 1st President of Radcliffe College | |
| In office 1882–1903 | |
| Succeeded by | LeBaron Russell Briggs |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elizabeth Cabot Cary December 5, 1822 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | June 27, 1907 (aged 84) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Graves Cary Mary Ann Cushing Perkins |
| Relatives | Thomas Handasyd Perkins (grandfather) |
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; née Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.[1]
Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from 1865 to 1866, and on the Hassler expedition from 1871 to 1872; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly. She published A First Lesson in Natural History (Boston, 1859) and edited Geological Sketches (1866).[2]
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