Alice Brown (1857-1948), scientist

Description: Alice Brown (1857-1948) studied anatomy at Cornell University. When she published The Black Drop (1919), a novel with scientific themes, the publisher emphasized that its "main character inherits a group of traits from a remote ancestor in a way which scientists believe is impossible in real life."..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5768 ( http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5768 ) ..Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives ..Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities...Accession number: SIA2008-0329