The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bush, Katharine Jeanette

BUSH, Katharine Jeanette, American zoologist: b. Scranton, Pa., 30 Dec. 1855. She received her education in public and private schools at New Haven, Conn., studied zoology under the direction of Verrill at Yale University and in 1879 was appointed assistant of the Yale Zoological Museum. She became a member of the United States Fish Commission, also of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. She was joint editor of ‘Webster's Dictionary’ (1890 ed.), and is the author of ‘The Tubiculous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides’ (in Harriman Alaska Expedition Series, Vol. XII, 190S); ‘Deep Water Mollusca’ (1885); ‘New Species of Turbonilla’ (1899), and contributions to the principal scientific journals.