Name Charlotte Bernier | ||
Charlotte De Bernier Taylor (1806 – 26 November 1861) was an American entomologist.
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Life
Born in Savannah in 1806, daughter of William, a planter and Julia (née Bernard). Taylor was educated at Madam Binze's School in Hew York, after which she made a tour of Europe.
In 1829 she married James Taylor, with whom she had three children, lived in Savannah as a person of means, raising the family, involved in social affairs, scientific studies and writing.
Around 1861 she went to England, dying in the Isle of Man on 26 November that year.
Works
During the 1830s Taylor began to study insects seriously, publishing her findings in general literary magazines. She studied insects related to cotton growing for fifteen years before publishing in American magazines, notably Harpers New Monthly, in the 1850s. She also investigated insects related to wheat.
She used powerful magnifying glasses to study insects and illustrated her articles with drawings, in which endeavour she was assisted by her daughters. She published a study on the silkworm and wrote about the natural history and anatomy of spiders.
On her journey to England she made microscopic studies of sea water. She started a work on plantation life on the Isle of Man, but died with it unfinished.