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Mischievous creatures : the forgotten sisters who transformed early American science  Cover Image Book Book

Mischievous creatures : the forgotten sisters who transformed early American science / Catherine McNeur.

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  • ISBN: 9781541674172
  • Physical Description: 418 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition: October 2023.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2023.
  • Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-405) and index.
  • Formatted Contents: Introduction: Sister scientists -- World of wonders -- In a tangled wilderness without a guide -- An object of peculiar interest -- Webs of correspondence -- Anonymously fierce -- Hidden at the root -- Little time to call my own -- A life of experience  -- Planting and preserving -- She is everything now, to me -- Forgetting.
Subject: Morris, Margaretta Hare, 1797-1867.
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1795-1865.
Botanists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Entomologists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Women scientists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Women scientists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th Century.
Scientists > United States > History > 19th Century.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.


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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Community Library (Sunbury).

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Community Library (Sunbury) 509.2273 McN (Text) 30210313230269 New Books Checked out 12/20/2023


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