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Annie Montague Alexander : naturalist and fossil hunter / Louise Chipley Slavicek, introduction : Milbry Polk.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7693
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slavicek, Louise Chipley, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Women explorers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950--Juvenile literature.
- Alexander, Annie Montague.
- Zoologists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Zoologists.
- Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950.
- Naturalists.
- Scientists.
- Women--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7693)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 102 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2004]
- Summary:
- Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.
- Contents:
- Devoted to science
- An island childhood
- Student of nature
- Hunting for fossils and big game
- Alaskan explorer and museum founder
- Fieldwork and land of her own
- an explorer to the last.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7693: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Milbry Polk autograph on title page.
- ISBN:
- 0791077101
- 9780791077108
- OCLC:
- 53901472
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