Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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Elizabeth Cabot Cary (5 December 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts - 27 June 1907 in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.
In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, whom she accompanied to Brazil (1865-1866 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-1872.
Her publications include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859); Life of Louis Agassiz; and Seaside Studies in Natural History (1865), in which she was assisted by her step-son, Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.
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- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 174-175.
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