The Woman's Education Association was a group that was founded in Boston, MA, in 1872 (it continued operating until 1929). The group was convened by "Melusina Fay Peirce and Charlotte Frances Buck Brooks as the Committee on the Better Education of Women on 22 Dec" (Collection Guides 2018). This group supported many women focused initiatives, and scientific initiatives. Among its many laudable projects, the Woman's Education Association "instituted the Harvard Examinations for Women (1872), arranged with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer summer chemistry courses for women (1873), encouraged Harvard to offer botany courses (1879), raised money for Radcliffe College (1894)" (SNAC ND). The Association also helped to found a summer laboratory at Annisquam, MA, then later they helped to found the MBL. According to the MBL's historical records: "in 1887, the Woman’s Education Association appointed a committee of twelve members 'to perfect plans for the organization of a permanent sea-side laboratory' that would replace the Annisquam Laboratory and combine research and instruction. The committee was inspired not only by the Annisquam lab, but by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz‘s short-lived [Anderson School] summer school of natural history on Penikese Island, off the coast of Woods Hole. Woods Hole was quickly picked as the site of the new permanent lab."
A Convening Place
- Allen, Garland. 1989. Introduction to 100 Years Exploring Life 1888-1988: The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
- Maienschein, Jane. 1989. 100 Years Exploring Life 1888-1988: The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
- Maienschein, Jane. 2013. “The Marine Biological Laboratory.” MBL History Project article. http://history.archives.mbl.edu/archives/items/marine-biological-laboratory
Dual Mission
- MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. 2018. “Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.” eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989
MBL Directors 1888-2018
- MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. 2018. “Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.” eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989
Select Scientific Notables
- Allen, Garland, Dletrich, Michael, Huber, Florian. 2016. "Victor Hamburger and Experimental Embryology." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/viktor-hamburger-and-experimental-embryology
- Elliott, Steve. 2009. "Jocques Loeb." The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. embryo.asu.edu/pages/jacques-loeb-1859-1924
- LaTourelle, J.J. 2016. "Squids, Axons, and Action Potentials: Stories of Neurobiological Discovery." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/squids-axons-and-action-potentials-stories-neurobiological-discovery
- LaTourelle, Jonathan Jacob. 2015. "The Neurobiology of Vision at the MBL." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/neurobiology-vision-mbl
- Lowe, James. 2016. "Shinya Inoué: Capturing Dynamic Cellular Processes." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/shinya-inoue-capturing-dynamic-cellular-processes
- Maienschein, Jane. 2015. "Edwin Grant Conklin." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/edwin-grant-conklin
- Nobel Prize. 2018. "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi - Biographical." The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobelprize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gy...
- Steinert, Beatrice and Jane Maienschein. 2016. "Edmund Beecher Wilson." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/edmund-beecher-wilson
- Turriziani Colonna, Federica. 2016. "Envisioning the MBL: Whitman's Efforts to Create an Independent Institution." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/envisioning-mbl-whitmans-efforts-create-independent-institution
Women at the MBL
- MBL. ND. "Women of Science at the MBL." MBL Website. http://comm.archive.mbl.edu/publications/women_index.html
Woman's Education Association
- The Harvard Crimson. ND. "Anderson School of Natural History at Penikese Island." The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1875/4/23/anderson-school-of-natural-...
- Massachusetts Historical Society. 2018. "Woman's Education Association (Boston, Mass.) Records." Massachusetts Historical Society Collection Guides. http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0393
- Marine Biological Laboratory. ND. "History of the MBL." Marine Biological Laboratory website. http://www.mbl.edu/history-of-the-mbl/
- SNAC. 2018. "Woman's Education Association (Boston, Mass.)." Social Networks and Archival Context website. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hb45b0
- Starr Jordan, David. 2018. "Louis Agassiz Swiss-American Scientist and Educator." Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Agassiz
Woods Hole Community
- Children's School of Science. ND. "Children's School of Science of Woods Hole." http://childrensschoolofscience.org/
- The Collecting Net. 1927. "Mixer Marks Start of Social Season." The Collecting Net. p 1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55219#page/10/mode/1up
- The Collecting Net. 1927. "Episcopal Church Entertains M.B.L.." The Collecting Net. p 4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55219#page/10/mode/1up
- Woods Hole Cantata. ND. "History." The Woods Hole Canata Consort website. https://woodsholecantata.org/history/
