Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon
Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (born July 29, 1852 in Bellows Falls , Vermont , † January 15, 1938 in Deerfield , Massachusetts ) was an American entomologist .
As an author, she is also cited as Arms, her maiden name.
Life
Sheldon grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts , where her father owned a hardware store. After graduating from high school, she moved to Boston, where she was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's Laboratory and teaching science in Boston schools. She wrote many articles on botany, zoology, and geology and was a contributor to the Boston Society of Natural History Museum. In 1897 she married the historian, judge and politician George Sheldon (1818-1916) and lived from then on partly in Deerfield, where she cataloged the collections at the Memorial Hall Museum of Deerfield with her husband. She was a curator there from 1913 until her death.
She worked with Alpheus Hyatt . Both were the first to describe the beak flies (Mecoptera) and the mayflies (Ephemeroptera).
Fonts
- with Hyatt: Insecta, Boston: Heath 1890 (as JM Arms) Biodiversity Library
- Guide to the invertebrates of the synoptic collection in the Museum of the Boston society of natural history, Boston 1905
Web links
- Jennie Maria arm Sheldon in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- English biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheldon, Jennie Maria Arms |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arms, Jennie Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bellows Falls , Vermont |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Deerfield , Massachusetts |