Annie Montague Alexander: Naturalist and Fossil Hunter (Women Explorers)

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley. Table of Contents ......Page 6 Introduction......Page 7 1: Devoted to Science......Page 18 2: An Island Childhood......Page 23 3: Student of Nature......Page 35 4: Hunting for Fossils and Big Game......Page 48 5: Alaskan Explorer and Museum Founder......Page 61 6: Fieldwork and Land of Her Own......Page 79 7: An Explorer to the Last......Page 91 Chronology......Page 101 Notes......Page 104 Bibliography......Page 106 Further Reading......Page 108 Index......Page 109 Picture Credits......Page 118 Contributors......Page 119 The daughter of a wealthy planter, Alexander used her inheritance to fund research for her passionthe natural sciences