Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (née Cary) (1822 - 1907) was an American educator and writer.
She was born in Boston. She was the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College between 1894 and 1902.
In 1850 she was married to Prof. Louis Agassiz, whom she accompanied to Brazil (1865-66 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-72.
Her publications include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859); Life of Louis Agassiz (two volumes, 1885); and Seaside Studies in Natural History (1865), in which she was assisted by her step-son, Alexander Agassiz.
Mrs. Agassiz's home was at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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