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" Annie Montague Alexander : "
Louise Chipley Slavicek, introduction : Milbry Polk.
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BL
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1014852
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b769222
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| Main Entry
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Slavicek, Louise Chipley,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Annie Montague Alexander : : naturalist and fossil hunter /\ Louise Chipley Slavicek, introduction : Milbry Polk.
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House Publishers,, ©2004.
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Women explorers
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xvi, 102 pages :: illustrations (some color), map ;; 24 cm.
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0791077101
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: 9780791077108
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91) and index.
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| Contents
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Devoted to science -- An island childhood -- Student of nature -- Hunting for fossils and big game -- Alaskan explorer and museum founder -- Fieldwork and land of her own -- an explorer to the last.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Alexander, Annie Montague,1867-1950
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Alexander, Annie Montague,1867-1950.
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Alexander, Annie Montague,1867-1950
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Zoologists-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.
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Naturalists.
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Scientists.
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Women, Biography.
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Zoologists.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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590/.92B
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QL31.A555S62 2004
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