Alice Rich Northrop
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American botanist and botanical collector
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Alice Rich Northrop's Degrees
- Bachelors Botany Smith College
- Masters Botany Smith College
- PhD Botany University of Chicago
Why Is Alice Rich Northrop Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alice Rich Northrop was an American botanist. She was known for expanding access to nature for New York City's public school children. Northrop traveled extensively to regions of the world where women did not usually venture, including Central America, the Caribbean, and Western North America. On a trip to the Bahamas, she and her husband, John Isaiah Northrop, discovered 18 new species. Her husband was killed in a laboratory accident in 1891, a week before their son was born.
Alice Rich Northrop's Published Works
Published Works
- Flora of New Providence and Andros (14)
- Happiness and love. (1)
- Proposed work of the children's bureau. (1)
- Planning the career. (1)
- Attitude of parents. (1)
- Nature and the child. (1)
- Department store and factory work. (0)
- Psychology—What it is and its importance. (0)
- The purpose of vocational guidance. (0)
- Child study a necessity. (0)
- Through field and woodland : a companion for nature students (0)
- Summer—Interesting summer plants. (0)
- The skin and the breathing apparatus. (0)
- Foes of health. (0)
- The field of work. (0)
- Play and its purpose. (0)
- Play and work—Their relation to health. (0)
- Sympathy and understanding. (0)
- Frogs and toads. (0)
- Work with nature. (0)
- The Boy Scouts and their law. (0)
- Deciding upon a vocation. (0)
- Through Field and Woodland (1930) (0)
- The basis of vocational choice for girls. (0)
- About training of parents. (0)
- A form for self-analysis—For boys and girls. (0)
- Praise, appreciation and encouragement. (0)
- Responsibility in teaching obedience. (0)
- Teaching and the professions. (0)
- Miscellaneous vocations for women and girls. (0)
- Discipline based on child study. (0)
- Summer bird life. (0)
- Autumn—Preparations for winter. (0)
- The beginning of vocational guidance for boys. (0)
- Types of children—Eye-minded and ear-minded. (0)
- Early social instincts. (0)
- More about the kindergarten plays. (0)
- Blue birds that sing, grow and help. (0)
- How to study children. (0)
- Kindergarten methods of play. (0)
- Truthfulness and honesty. (0)
- Vocational outlook for boys. (0)
- Advice to parents in vocational guidance. (0)
- Basis of vocational guidance. (0)
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