Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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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]
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz | |
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1st President of Radcliffe College | |
In office 1882–1903 | |
Succeeded by | LeBaron Russell Briggs |
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Born | Elizabeth Cabot Cary (1822-12-05)December 5, 1822 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | June 27, 1907(1907-06-27) (aged 84) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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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]