Back إليزابيث كابوت أغاسيز Arabic اليزابيث كابوت اجاسيز ARZ Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Catalan Elizabeth Cary Agassiz German Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Spanish Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Basque الیزابت کابوت کری آگاسیز Persian Elizabeth Cary Agassiz French אליזבת קבוט אגאסי HE Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Italian
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz | |
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| 1st President of Radcliffe College | |
| In office 1882–1903 | |
| Succeeded by | LeBaron Russell Briggs |
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| Born | Elizabeth Cabot Cary December 5, 1822 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | June 27, 1907 (aged 84) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Graves Cary Mary Ann Cushing Perkins |
| Relatives | Thomas Handasyd Perkins (grandfather) |
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; née 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.[1]
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).[2]
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