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sciences in a course of twenty-three studies. Names have changed since then, and work had broadened; botany and zoology have stretched out into the deeper researches of biology. since this is a scientific age and we are bound to keep abreast of the times; since every college has its own particular individuality — let us press onward in these lines till we obtain full recognition among the colleges of New
England, claiming the right to confer degrees whenever it can be shown that our pupils have done as much and as good work as other colleges require for the same degrees.
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Shattuck was more to us than a botanist. She was a naturalist to whom it was easy, in those field excursions on which she led us, to give us charming glimpses of the food for thought and study in the rocks, clouds, and living creatures, which were as much the subjects of her talks as the plants
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In the very beginning of the seminary, science had a prominent place in its course of study. Botany was in both the first and second years of the three years' course. Chemistry, geology, astronomy, natural philosophy, physiology, and philosophy of natural history had each its appointed place — seven
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Shattuck actively canvassed for donations for the construction of a new chemistry and physics building at Mount
Holyoke until her death in 1889. Henrietta Hooker, who succeeded her as head of the botany department, campaigned successfully for a planned science building to be named in her honor.
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in 1878 and would additionally collect, classify, and catalog seven thousand plants for its collection. She would also regularly advocate for and acquire updated department equipment and household appliances (e.g., "steam heating, the elevator, the artesian well") for the school.
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Fletcher and Timothy Shattuck, and she was the only one of their first five children to survive past infancy. When she was a young girl, her mother would take her on excursions through the woods, which inspired a love of nature, particularly
280:, selected fifty scientists to attend the inaugural session, and Shattuck was one of sixteen women selected. She was also one of a handful of women chemists at the first meeting of the 1874 Priestly centennial, from which the
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was born. However, she was excluded from a picture taken of the founders, as she had been asked to stand with the wives of the male chemists in attendance. She was a member of scientific societies such as the
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for brief periods when not teaching. In 1848, at age twenty-six, she entered Mount
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