Harriet Richardson

Harriet Richardson Searle was an American carcinologist.

Richardson was born onMay 1874 in Washington DC to Charles and Charlotte Ann Richardson. She attended Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington before attending Vassar College where she became interested in biology from which she graduated in 1896 with a BA, and again with a masters degree in zoology in 1901. In 1901 Richardson was appointed Collaborator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates at the National Museum of Natural History. She earned her PhD in the same field from George Washington University in 1903.

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