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Alice Carter Cook
Alice Carter Cook (April 8, 1868 – April 23, 1943), born Alice Carter, was an American botanist, who in 1888 received from Syracuse University the first PhD in botany granted to a woman by any American university. Carter was born in New York City on to parents Samuel Thompson Carter and Alantha Carter (née Pratt). Her father was a clergyman of nearby Huntington, New York. She studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) before enrolling at Syracuse for her
Institution and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Cook also wrote an anthropological profile of native people of the Canary Islands, and later published poems, short stories, and two plays.
Cook had two sons and two daughters; her son Robert Carter Cook became a noted geneticist and demographer.
External links.
- Alice Carter Cook Field Notes, 1893-1897 in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Cook, Alice. "Index of Botanists". Harvard University Herbaria
- Cook, Alice Carter. "