Marian E. Hubbard

Marian E. Hubbard
Born August 31, 1868
McGregor, Iowa
Died February 24, 1956
Nationality American
Education Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College, 1889, University of Chicago, B.S. 1894
Known for Zoology

Marian Elizabeth Hubbard (August 31, 1868 – February 24, 1956) was an American zoologist.[1][2]

Biography

Marian Elizabeth Hubbard was born in McGregor, Iowa, to parents Rodolphus and Hanna Hubbard,[3] she retired from her position as associate professor of zoology at Wellesley College in 1937 and died February 24, 1956.[4]

Education

In 1886 Hubbard graduated from McGregor school.[5] She attended an all female Mount Holyoke Seminary, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1894.

Professional career

Despite only earning a bachelor's degree, she taught at Wellesley College in Massachusetts for over 40 years, rising to the rank of professor, and retiring as professor emerita in 1937. Hubbard was known as "the flight of the zoology department" due to her feminist approach at Wellesley College, Here at Wellesley, she often wrote in the Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly on scientific matters across campus.[6] She was once a member of the American Ornithologists' Union[7] and the American Association of University Professors,[8] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9] Hubbard was also a prominent advocate for women's suffrage and advocated among the Wellesley College campus writing articles to the school's president about women scientists and their struggles.

Research

Her research included heredity in insects, embryology of birds, and behavior of salamanders.[10][11] In 1904, Hubbard researched and co-wrote an article on pecten and varying pecten ray length. After her research on pecten, Hubbard encountered an issue when a fire in 1914 at Wellesley College, where her 20 years of research on beetles was destroyed.[12]

Published works

She was the author of Studies in the evolution of Pecten IV Ray variability in Pecten varius (1904), Coorelated Protective Devices In Some California Salamanders (1907), and Some Experiments on the Order of Succession of the Somites in the Chick (1908).[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Rossiter, Margaret (1984). Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801825091.
  2. ↑ Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.; Good, David A.; Wake, David B. (2003-01-01). Brief History of Herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a List of Type Specimens of Recent Amphibians and Reptiles (1 ed.). University of California Press. doi:10.1525/j.ctt1pp5r0. ISBN 9780520238183. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pp5r0.
  3. ↑ John W. Leonard (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 411.
  4. ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: A-K. Routledge. p. 624. ISBN 978-0-415-92039-1.
  5. ↑ "The North Iowa Times from McGregor, Iowa". Newspapers. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Species Description". Allaire Diamond and Jiasuey Hsu. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Sage, John Hall (1917-01-01). "Thirty-Fourth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union". The Auk. 34 (1): 76–85. doi:10.2307/4072543. JSTOR 4072543.
  8. ↑ "Membership". Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (1915-1955). 3 (6): 24–31. 1917-01-01. JSTOR 40216840.
  9. ↑ Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1901. p. 162. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  10. ↑ Leonard, John. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. New York: American Commonwealth Co.
  11. ↑ Palmieri, Patricia Ann (1997). In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300063881.
  12. ↑ "Remembering the Fire of 1914". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Results for "Marian E. Hubbard"". Michigan State University Libraries. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  14. ↑ Hubbard, Marian (July 1908). "Some Experiments on the Order of Succession of the Somites of the Chick". The American Naturalist. 42 (499): 466–472.


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