Elizabeth agassi biography

American educator

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; née Cary; December 5, – June 27, ) 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]

Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from to , and on the Hassler expedition from to ; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly.

Elizabeth Agassiz (APS 1869) - American Philosophical Society

She published A First Lesson in Natural History (Boston, ) and edited Geological Sketches ().

Early life and education

Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born on December 5, , into a Boston Brahmin family of New England ancestry. She was born at the house of her grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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