Katharine Fowler-Billings
Katharine (Kay) Fowler Billings (1902 – December 17, 1997) was an accomplished naturalist and geologist, married to Marland Pratt Billings.
She was raised in Boston, studied at Bryn Mawr College, and received further geological training in the Rocky Mountains. She received a PhD from Columbia University. Her "publication record ... includes fundamental geological descriptions of large areas in Wyoming, Sierra Leone, and New Hampshire."[1]
She was an environmental activist in New England.[1]
She was an Honorary Fellow of the New Hampshire Geological Society.[2][3]
The Marland Pratt Billings and Katharine Fowler-Billings Fund for Research in New England Geology was established to honor the contributions to "the study of the geology of New England" by Fowler-Billings and her husband.[4]
Katharine Fowler Billings died December 17, 1997, in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She was 95.
Works
A partial list of books:
- The Gold Missus: A woman prospector in Sierra Leone (1938)
- Geology of the Cardigan and Rumney quadrangles, New Hampshire (1942)
- Igneous and metasedimentary dikes of the Mt. Washington area, New Hampshire (1944)
- Sillimanite deposits in the Monadnock Quadrangle, (New Hampshire. State Planning and Development Commission. Mineral resource survey) (1944)
- The geology of the Monadnock quadrangle, New Hampshire (1949)
- The geological story of Wellesley (1961)
- Geology of the Isles of Shoals (1977)
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