Margaretta Hare Morris | |
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 Margaretta Hare Morris, c. 1840s | |
| Born | 3 December 1797 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Died | 29 May 1867 (aged 69) Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Occupation | Entomologist |
| Known for | Being one of the first two women elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science; being the second woman elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
| Family | Elizabeth Carrington Morris (sister) |
Margaretta Hare Morris (December 3, 1797 – May 29, 1867) was an American entomologist.[1] Morris and the astronomer Maria Mitchell were the first women elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850.[2][3] She was also the second woman elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1859, after Lucy Say.[1][4]
- ^ a b Elliott, Clark A; Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory (1979). Biographical Dictionary of American Science: The Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries. Westport and London: Greenwood Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-313-20419-7.
- ^ Willis Conner Sorensen (1995). Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880. History of American science and technology series. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817307554.
- ^ Rossiter, Margaret W. (1982). Women scientists in America : struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2443-5. OCLC 8052928.
- ^ Willis Conner Sorensen (1995). Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880. History of American science and technology series. University of Alabama Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780817307554.