American women afield : writings by pioneering women naturalists / edited by Marcia Myers Bonta.

College Station : Texas A&M University, [1995], ©1995.

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

1st ed.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Susan Fenimore Cooper: Summer -- Graceanna Lewis: Birds and their friends -- Mary Treat: Plants that eat animals -- Martha Maxwell: From on the plains and among the peaks -- Annie Trumbull Slosson: Experiences of a collector collecting on Biscayne Bay, part II -- Katharine Dooris Sharp: The woman botanist -- Althea Sherman: The home life of the chimney swift, Down with the house wren boxes -- Elizabeth Gifford Peckham: Communal life, Ammophila and her caterpillars -- Alice Eastwood: Letter: May 7, 1906 in Portu Bodega -- Anna Botsford Comstock: a dweller in tents

(contin.) Cordelia Stanwood: The hermit thrush: the voice of the northern woods -- Agnes Chase: Eastern Brazil through an agrostologist's spectacles -- Ynes Mexia: Camping on the equator -- Mary Sophie Young: Mary S. Young's Journal of Botanical explorations in Trans-Pecos, Texas, August-September, 1914 -- Edith Clements: Ecology and World War I -- Edith Patch: Marooned in a potato field -- Ann Haven Morgan: Fresh-water sponges in winter -- Margaret Morse Nice: The Awakening -- Nellie Harris Rau: Behavior of pompilid wasps

(contin.) Amelia Laskey: Watching a Carolina Wren's nest -- Caroline Dormon: Camping in the Kisatchie Wold -- E. Lucy Braun: the forest of Lynn Fork of leatherwood -- Ruth Harris Thomas: Crip, come home -- Rachel Carson: Sea pansies, Basket starfish, The other road.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 247-248)