Clara Eaton Cummings
Clara Eaton Cummings | |
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Born | 13 July 1855 |
Died | 28 December 1906 | (aged 51)
Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | Wellesley College |
Clara Eaton Cummings (13 July 1855 – 28 December 1906) was an American
Life and education
Cummings was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on July 13, 1855 to Noah Conner and Elmira George Cummings.[1] In 1876, she enrolled at the women's liberal arts college Wellesley, only one year after the opening of the institution.
Career
Cummings primarily studied cryptogamous (spore-reproducing) plants such as
She became a curator at the botanical museum at Wellesley from 1878–79 and was hired at Wellesley as an associate professor of botany for the 1879 school year.[1][4] In 1886 and 1887 she studied under Dr. Arnold Dodel at the University of Zurich where she did private work and prepared charts for a Cryptogamic Botany illustration. While in Europe, she traveled to various botanical gardens to study some of the great botanists.[5] After returning from Zurich, Cummings became an associate professor of cryptogamic botany at Wellesey.[1] Between 1892 and 1903 she published three exsiccata works called Decades of North American lichens with Thomas Albert Williams and Arthur Bliss Seymour as co-editors.[6]
In 1904, she published a catalog of 217 species of
In February and March 1905, Cummings took a trip to Jamaica where she collected lichens. After her death, her collection was sent to the New York Botanical Garden.[8]
Cummings was an associate editor of
Partial bibliography
- Catalogue of Musci and Hepaticae of North America, North of Mexico (1885)[11]
- The Lichens of Alaska (1904)[13]
Notes
- ^ a b c The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine. Granite Monthly Co. 1907-01-01.
- ^ a b Palmieri, Patricia Ann. In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. p. 117.
- ^ Cummings, Clara (1885). Catalogue of Musci and Hepaticae of North America, North of Mexico. Howard and Stiles.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7876-3900-6.
- ^ Wellesley news : Free Download & Streaming. Wellesley, Mass : Wellesley College. Retrieved 2015-11-21 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- JSTOR 3238923.
- JSTOR 3753489.
- ISBN 9781598841589.
- ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- ^ a b "Cummings, Clara Eaton (1855-1906)".
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Cumm.
- .
External links
- Works by Clara Eaton Cummings at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)