Katharine Jeannette Bush

Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937) was an American zoologist, noteworthy as the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences from Yale University.

Quotes

• Practically nothing was known of the annelids of the North Pacific coast before Johnson's valuable reports of 1897 and 1901 — the first entitled 'A Preliminary Account of the Marine Annelids of the Pacific Coast,' the other 'The Polychæta of the Puget Sound Region.' This is especially true of Alaska, a few species only having been recorded north of Vancouver Island, British Columbia; therefore the collections made by Dr. William E. Ritter, of the University of California, and Dr. Wesley R. Coe, of Yale University, as members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, are of great interest.
  • Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Volume 12 of the Harriman Alaska Series from the Harriman Alaska expedition. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1905. 

• Paravermilia bermudensis, Bush, 1905.
  Nine tubes of moderate size were found in 1898 and 1901, dredged in 30-40 feet in Great Harbor and other localities at Bermuda. They were taken usually from dead coral but occasionally attached to mollusks, forming an irregularly twisted mass. The surface is sometimes ornamented with five conspicuous, longitudinal carinæ, the two outer ones usually the largest.
  • (1907). "Descriptions of the two genera of tubicolous annelids, Paravermilia and Pseudovermilia, with species from Bermuda referable to them". American Journal of Science 4 (134): 131–136. (quote from p. 132)

External links

• Data related to Katharine Jeannette Bush on Wikispecies
• Joseph Adelman, "Katharine J. Bush". Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages with Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. John L. Rogers. 1928. p. 285. 
• Katharine Jeannette Bush 1855-1937. NOAA Fisheries.