Ann Haven Morgan papers

Anna Haven Morgan was born on May 6, 1882 in Waterford, Connecticut to Stanley G. Morgan and Julia A. Douglass Morgan. She attended Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Connecticut and went to Wellesley College in 1902 before transferring to Cornell University, where she received a B.A. in 1906. She worked as an assistant and instructor in the Zoology Department at Mount Holyoke College from 1906-1909, then resumed her studies at Cornell and earned a Ph.D. in 1912. Around this time she changed her first name from "Anna" to "Ann." She returned to Mount Holyoke and was a professor of zoology until 1947, serving as chair of the Zoology Department from 1916-1947. Morgan did research and was a Visiting Fellow at other institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Yale University, and the Tropical Laboratory at Kartabo, British Guiana. Her teaching and research interests focused on aquatic biology and the habits and conditions of hibernating animals. She was also interested in ecological and environmental issues and was an active member of the National Commission on Policies in Conservation Education. Morgan wrote and illustrated three books: "Field Book of Ponds and Streams: an Introduction to the Life of Fresh Water" (1930), "Field Book of Animals in Winter" (1939) and "Kinships of Animals and Man" (1955). In 1949 she collaborated with "Encyclopedia Britannica" on an educational film entitled "Animals in Winter." She was one of three women among the two hundred and fifty people listed in the fifth edition of "American Men of Science" published in 1933. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American Society of Naturalists, the American Society of Zoologists, the American Association of Museums, the New York Herpetological Society, the Association of Social Hygiene, and the Sigma Xi Society. For many years she lived and traveled with Amy Elizabeth Adams, a 1914 graduate of Mount Holyoke who also was a member of the college's Zoology Department. Morgan died at age eighty-four on June 5, 1966 in South Hadley Massachusetts.