Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; 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.

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). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1865.
    vi p., 1 ̋., 155 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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    Boston : D.C. Heath & Co., 1896.
    64 p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
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    by Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
    Published 1868
    Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
    xix, 540 p. front., illus., plates. 22 cm.
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