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Alice Osborne Curwen

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33: 212:, where she was president of the Winterport Club. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a statewide lecturer and leader in Episcopal churchwomen's work in Maine, and represented Maine at a national Episcopalian conference in San Francisco in 1949. She was also active in the Women's Society of Christian Service, and a delegate to the state Republican convention in 1966. 235:
Though few in number, Curwen's publications continue to be cited in her field. As recently as 2005, she was included in a list of "illustrious" early comparative neuroanatomists, in an anatomy textbook.
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Alice Osborne Curwen married Edward Forster McKeen in 1940. Her husband was superintendent at a coal plant in Maine. She and her sister Elinor Ewing Curwen donated art to the
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Alice Osborne Curwen was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of George Fisher Curwen and Helen Stoddard Osborne Curwen. Her father was a lumber dealer. She graduated from
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A Family Tapestry: Five Generations of the Curwens of Walnut Hill and their various relatives
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Reiter, Sam; Liaw, Hua-Peng; Yamawaki, Tracy M.; Naumann, Robert K.; Laurent, Gilles (2017).
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Curwen continued her research on reptile anatomy in the 1930s, publishing research in the
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Lillie, Frank Rattray; Moore, Carl Richard; Redfield, Alfred Clarence (1925).
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Hoogland, P. V.; Ten Donkelaar, H. J.; Cruce, J. A. F. (January 1, 1978).
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Evolution of the Forebrain: Phylogenesis and Ontogenesis of the Forebrain
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Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy: Evolution and Adaptation
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Alice Osborne Curwen, from the 1925 yearbook of Smith College
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in 1924. She completed doctoral studies in biology at
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Butler, Ann B.; Hodos, William (September 2, 2005).
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A young white woman with short wavy hair, wearing a white blouse with a wide pointed collar, and a soft jacket or cardigan
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
histology
embryology
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Smith College
Marine Biological Laboratory
Yale University
telencephalon
tupinambis nigropunctatus
Journal of Comparative Neurology
American Association of Anatomists
Winterport, Maine
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
"Mrs. G. Curwen Dies at Age 91"
"Obituary for George Fisher Curwen (Aged 83)"
Class of 1925
The Biological Bulletin
Reports to the President of Yale University
"The telencephalon of tupinambis nigropunctatus. I. Medial and cortical areas"
doi
10.1002/cne.900660208
ISSN
1096-9861
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