| 词条 | Margaretta Morris |
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LifeMorris was born on 3 December 1797, probably in Philadelphia, one of three daughters of Luke Morris (1760-1802), apparently a wealthy man, and Ann Morris (1767-1853), (née Willing) who also had one son, Thomas Willing Morris. Morris had no formal education.[6] She lived in the same house in Germantown most of her life, with her mother, until her death in 1853, and her sister, Elizabeth Carrington Morris who was interested in botany and had correspondence with Asa Gray. Her youngest sister Susan Sophia Morris (1800-1868) married, in 1832, John Stockton Littell (1806-1875).[7] The sisters were part of a network that include Gray and Dorethea Dix.[7] Morris attended scientific lectures in Germantown with her mother, and was acquainted with the botanist and ornithologist Thomas Nuttall as well as other scientists. Morris studied the habits of the Hessian fly, concluding that the eggs were laid in the grain rather than the stalk as had been previously thought. She also studied the seventeen year locust and fungi as botanical pests. Her results were important to agriculture.[1] She sent her papers to scientific societies (which largely only had men as members) where they were read on her behalf.[6] Works{{Expand list|date=November 2015}}Family papersThe Morris family papers passed, apparently through Susan and Kohn Littell, into the Littell family. They are incorporated in the Littell family papers,[8] currently held in the special collections of the library of the University of Delaware.[9] IllustrationsMorris provided illustrations for a paper by William Gambel. (1848)[6] Papers
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References1. ^1 2 {{BDAS|185}} 2. ^{{Cite book|page=188|title=Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880|series=History of American science and technology series|author=Willis Conner Sorensen|publisher=University of Alabama Press|date=1995|id={{ISBN|9780817307554}}}} 3. ^{{Cite book|page=261|title=American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary|author=Martha J. Bailey|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=1994|id={{ISBN|9780874367409}}|quote="Margaretta Morris became the first practicing woman naturalist (and second woman) to be elected to membership when she was appointed an honorary member in the late 1850s."}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Lucy Say Illustrations|url=http://www.ansp.org/research/library/archives/0400-0499/say433/|publisher=Academy of Natural Sciences}} 5. ^{{Cite book|title=Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880|series=History of American science and technology series|author=Willis Conner Sorensen|publisher=University of Alabama Press|date=1995|isbn=9780817307554}} 6. ^1 2 {{BDWS|917}} 7. ^1 Littell Family Papers - Catalogue (Draft) - Biographical Note, page 2 8. ^Littell Family Papers - Catalogue (Draft) - Biographical Note, page 14 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/index.htm|title=University of Delaware Library: Special Collections - Manuscript & Archival Collections|first=Special|last=Collections|website=Lib.udel.edu|accessdate=10 May 2018}} External links
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