Amelia Smith Calvert

Amelia Smith Calvert (1876, Philadelphia – 1965) was an American botanist noted for studying the flora of Costa Rica.[1][2][3] She was married to entomologist Philip Powell Calvert. She attended Pennsylvania state university and graduated in 1899 when she got her degree in science and studied botany.[4] She served as a demonstrator in zoology at Pennsylvania university, and started a research fellowship at Bryn Mayr College.[5]

Amelia Smith Calvert
Born1876
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedDecember 15, 1965
Chester, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Known forStudy of Costa Rican flora
SpousePhilip Powell Calvert
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)A.S.Calvert

Works
  • Calvert, Amelia Smith; Calvert, Philip Powell (1917). A year of Costa Rican natural history. New York, The Macmillan company. Retrieved 22 August 2018.The standard author abbreviation A.S.Calvert is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6] Amelia Smith Calvert was a demonstrator in zoology at the Pennsylvania state university. where she was a graduate student from 1904 to 1906.[7] In 1909 Amelia Smith Calvert moved to Costa Rica with Philip Powell Calvert, where he would carry out entomological research for two years. This being research of some of the animal species such as caterpillars. While spending these two years in Costa Rica Amelia Smith Calvert would go on to study the inhabitants of the flora. [8]There where many species of plant life that she did study, among those plants she had also studied the nature of bananas and how they are able to produce and grow. In her studies of the bananas plantations she had found a dark brown hue. This hue being an insignificant coloration for a healthy bananas.[9] Amelia Smith Calvert Being one Of the Few women who had studied the panama disease. In the year 1910 Amelia Smith Calvert had returned from her trip with Philip Powell Calvert, where she had studied the Fauna and Flora that in inhabitant Costa Rica. In the year of 1917 Amelia Smith Calvert and Philip Powel Calvert had written and published a book A Year Of Costa Rican Natural History in reference to the Fauna and Flora She had Studied when she was in Costa Rica.[10]

References
  1. "Calvert, Amelia Catherine (1876–)". Global Plants. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. "Amelia Smith Calvert photographs of Costa Rican plants, circa 1909–1910". hdl.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  3. Calvert, Amelia Smith. "Amelia Smith Calvert diaries, 1912–1929". Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  4. Cadwaller, Rive. "The Plant Collecting Expediction Expediction of Amelia Smith Calvert". Rare books and Manuscripts. Kislak Center For Special Collections. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  5. Cadwallader, Rive (25 May 2016). ""Unique at Penn: A 'Natural Garden': The Plant-Collecting Expedition of Amelia Smith Calvert,"". Rare Books and Manuscripts. Retrieved 5 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. International Plant Names Index.  A.S.Calvert.
  7. Cadwaller, Rive. "Unique at Penn a Natural Garden The Plant Collecting Expedition Of Amelia Smith Calvert". Rare Books and Manuscripts. Kislak center for special collections. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  8. Cadwaller, Rive (25 May 2016). "A "Natural Garden": The Plant-Collecting Expedition of Amelia Smith Calvert". Unique at Penn. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  9. Cadweller, Rive (25 May 2016). "A "Natural Garden": The Plant-Collecting Expedition of Amelia Smith Calvert". Unique at penn. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  10. Am, Pan. "A Year Of Costa Rican Natural History". 44 Bull. Pan Am. Union 593 (1917) A Year of Costa Rican Natural History. The MC Millian Company 1917. Retrieved 5 May 2023.


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