Katharine Jeannette Bush

Katharine Jeannette Bush
Born(1855-12-30)December 30, 1855
Scranton, Pennsylvania
DiedJanuary 19, 1937(1937-01-19) (aged 81)
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsUnited States Fish Commission

Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937)[1] was an American zoologist and marine biologist.

Biography

She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1901, she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in zoology at Yale University. In her dissertation, Bush described three new genera and sixteen new species of the Sabellides and Serpulides tribes,[2] which were collected during the Harriman Alaska expedition that her brother-in-law, Wesley R. Coe, attended in 1899.[3]

Bush studied zoology under A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the zoological museum at Yale, until 1913.[2] She served on the United States Fish Commission between 1881 and 1888,[2] helped to edit the 1890 edition of Webster's Dictionary, and was made a member of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. She wrote "The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides," in Harriman Alaska Expedition, volume XII (1905), besides Deep Water Mollusca (1885) and New Species of Turbonilla (1899).

During her career, Bush published 19 works, between articles and monographs, which was a very high number for women in this area at the time.[3]

  • Gymnobela atypha created by Bush in 1893
    Gymnobela atypha created by Bush in 1893
  • Turbolidium uniliratum created by Bush in 1899
    Turbolidium uniliratum created by Bush in 1899
  • Mangelia leuca created by Bush in 1893
    Mangelia leuca created by Bush in 1893
  • Turbonilla hemphilli created by Bush in 1899
    Turbonilla hemphilli created by Bush in 1899
  • Turbonilla stimpsoni created by Bush in 1899
    Turbonilla stimpsoni created by Bush in 1899
  • Ithycythara psila created by Bush in 1885
    Ithycythara psila created by Bush in 1885
  • Inodrillia amblytera created by Bush in 1893
    Inodrillia amblytera created by Bush in 1893

See also

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References

  1. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415920388.
  2. ^ a b c "Katharine Jeannette Bush (1855–1937), Ph.D. · Yale University Library Online Exhibitions". onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  3. ^ a b "Collection: Katharine Jeanette Bush Archives | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-09.