Katharine Jeannette Bush
{{short description|American zoologist}}
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| field = Zoology
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Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937){{cite book|last1=Ogilvie|first1=Marilyn Bailey|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|last2=Harvey|first2=Joy|author2-link=Joy Harvey|title=The biographical dictionary of women in science|date=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0415920388|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Katharine Jeannette Bush (1855–1937), Ph.D. · Yale University Library Online Exhibitions |url=https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/WISE/page/katharine-jeannette-bush |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu}} which were collected during the Harriman Alaska expedition that her brother-in-law, Wesley R. Coe, attended in 1899.{{Cite web |title=Collection: Katharine Jeanette Bush Archives {{!}} Archives at Yale |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/15/resources/11142 |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=archives.yale.edu}}
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. She served on the United States Fish Commission between 1881 and 1888, 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 "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175080 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.
File:Gymnobela atypha 001.jpg|Gymnobela atypha created by Bush in 1893
File:Turbonilla unilirata 001.png|Turbolidium uniliratum created by Bush in 1899
File:Mangelia leuca 001.jpg|Mangelia leuca created by Bush in 1893
File:Turbonilla hemphilli 001.png|Turbonilla hemphilli created by Bush in 1899
File:Turbonilla stimpsoni 001.png|Turbonilla stimpsoni created by Bush in 1899
File:Ithycythara psila 001.jpg|Ithycythara psila created by Bush in 1885
File:Drillia amblytera 001.jpg|Inodrillia amblytera created by Bush in 1893
See also
{{Wikispecies|Katharine Jeannette Bush}}
References
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External links
- {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Bush, Katharine Jeanette}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/archives/biography/katharine-jeannette-bush|title=Yale Peabody Museum : Collections : Archives : Katharine Jeannette Bush|accessdate=23 December 2011}}
- {{cite web | title=Katharine Jeannette Bush - Story | website=Science Stories | date=1937-01-19 | url=http://www.sciencestories.io/Q6376201 }}
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Category:American science writers
Category:Writers from Scranton, Pennsylvania
Category:Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Category:19th-century American zoologists
Category:United States Fish Commission personnel
Category:American women biologists
Category:American marine biologists
Category:Women marine biologists
Category:American women science writers
Category:Scientists from Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century American women scientists
Category:20th-century American zoologists
Category:20th-century American women scientists
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Category:19th-century American women writers