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Erminnie A. Smith

Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adele Platt

April 26, 1837 – June 9, 1886 (aged 49)

Birth place: Marcellus, New York, USA

Geologist & Anthropologist for the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology. Called the first woman field ethnographer, she was the first woman elected to the New York Academy of Science.

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