List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- THE PIONEERS -- Jane Colden, Colonial Botanist -- Maria Martin, Audubon's Sweetheart -- THE NATURALISTS -- Graceanna Lewis, Quaker Naturalist -- Martha Maxwell, Colorado Naturalist -- Mary Treat, Naturalist of the Pine Barrens -- Annie Montague Alexander, Intrepid Explorer -- Ellen Quillin, Flowerlady of Texas -- THE BOTANISTS -- Kate Furbish, the Posey-Woman -- Kate Brandegee, Accidental Botanist -- Alice Eastwood, Grand Old Botanist of the Academy -- Ynes Mexia, Botanical Adventures -- Mary Sophie Young, Trans-Pecos Botanist -- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, Mother of American Bryology -- Agnes Chase, Dean of American Agrostologists -- THE ENTOMOLOGISTS -- Anna Botsford Comstock, Dean of American Nature Study -- Annie Trumbull Slosson, the Old Bug Woman -- Edith Patch, Entomological Naturalist -- THE ORNITHOLOGISTS -- Florence Merriam Bailey, First Lady of Ornithology -- Althea Rosina Sherman, Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard -- Cordelia Stanwood, Bird Woman of Ellsworth -- Margaret Morse Nice, Ethologist of the Song Sparrow -- Amelia Laskey, Patron Saint to the Birds -- THE ECOLOGISTS -- Ann Haven Morgan, Ecologist of Ponds and Streams -- Carrie Dormon, Queen of the Forest Kingdom -- Rachel Carson, Pioneering Ecologist -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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