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Esther Byrnes

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Died
  
1946

Citizenship
  
American


Fields
  
Biology

Name
  
Esther Byrnes

Esther Byrnes

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences

Esther Fussell Byrnes (1867–1946) was an American biologist and science teacher. She was a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. She tutored the princesses of the Japanese royal family from 1926 to 1927.

She made discoveries in marine biology, and was one of the first women copepodologists—scientists who study copepods.

Works

  • Byrnes, E. F. (1909). "The Fresh Water Cyclops of Long Island". Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 7. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10398. 
  • Byrnes, E. F. (1921). "The Metamorphosis of Cyclops americanus Marsh and Cyclops signatus var. tenuicornis". Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 9. 

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