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Annie Montague Alexander : naturalist and fossil hunter / Louise Chipley Slavicek, introduction : Milbry Polk.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Slavicek, Louise Chipley, 1956- author.
Contributor:
Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.
Polk, Milbry, writer of introduction.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
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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