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Exist Dates: 1875 December 5 - 1970 May 22
Abstract: Delia Julia Denning (born December 5, 1875 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin – died May 22, 1970, Daytona Beach, Florida), explorer, big game hunter, naturalist, and author, who went on four expeditions to Africa, both with former husband Carl Ethan Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History as well as solo for the Brooklyn Museum . She is the author of numerous magazine articles as well as the books J.T., j.r.: the biography of the African monkey (1929) and Jungle Portraits (1930).

Exist Dates: 1878 - 1966
Abstract: Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe) Akeley (born January 29, 1878, Tappan, Ohio— died July 19, 1966, Mystic, Connecticut), explorer, photographer, lecturer, writer, who went on numerous expeditions to the Canadian Rockies before marrying Carl Ethan Akeley, participating in his Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall expedition and being named Special Advisor and Assistant of the African Hall for the Museum of Natural History, after his death in 1926. She is the author of many publications, including Carl Akeley’s Africa, Restless Jungle, and Congo Eden.

Exist Dates: 1883 February 5 - 1970 April 22
Abstract: IDA MAY MENZIES BECK was born on February 5, 1883 in Dundalk, Ontario, Canada to Mary Coutts Menzies and Archibald Menzies. She had several brothers and sisters.

Exist Dates: 1900 - 1987 December 16
Abstract: VIRGINIA GONCALVES CORREIA (née AGUIAR) was born in 1900 in Lajes, Terceira, in the Azores.

Exist Dates: 1888 December 6 - 1969 August 3
Abstract: Libbie Henrietta Hyman (born December 6, 1888, Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1888 — died August 3, 1969, New York, New York), scientist, zoologist, author, who researched and published numerous writings on invertebrates. She became affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in 1933, when she accepted a position as a research associate in the Department of Experimental Biology. In 1943, she was named research associate in the Department of Invertebrates. She is the author of numerous publications, including: A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology, A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, six volumes of The Invertebrates.

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