Katharine Jeanette Bush
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| Born | 1855 Scranton, Pennsylvania |
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| Died | 1937 |
| Field | Zoology |
| Institution | Yale University United States Fish Commission |
Katharine Jeanette Bush (1855-1937) was an American zoölogist. She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences at Yale University.
Bush studied zoölogy under Prof. A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoölogical museum at Yale University. She served on the United States fish commission, 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 Zoölogists. 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).
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