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	Annie Montague Alexander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an American financier and paleontological collector.
		She is best known as the benefactress of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the financier of university museum collections as well as a series of important paleontological expeditions to the western United States at the turn of the 20th century.
		Alexander first became fascinated with paleontology in 1901 while attending a lecture by Professor John C. Merriam at the University of California, Berkeley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annie_Montague_Alexander (444 words)

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	Gay Bears: Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg
		Alexander’s labors on behalf of science came at a time when the “wild West” was vanishing, but West Coast scientific institutions still largely lacked the research collections necessary to attract and retain the best scholars.
		Alexander’s dedication to building the two museum programs made a vital contribution to the academic quality of the Berkeley campus; both facilities are now regarded as among the best of their type in the United States, with large, admired and, in some cases, unique, collections of specimens.
		Alexander’s biographer Barbara Stein likened their relationship to what, in the late 19th century, was sometimes described as “romantic friendship” between two women.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /gaybears/alexkel (904 words)

	John C. Merriam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1901 one of his lectures on paleontology inspired the young Annie Montague Alexander, who financed and took part in his expedition that year to Fossil Lake in Oregon.
		Alexander, who went on to a lifelong career as a paleontological benefactress, financed his subsequent expeditions to Mount Shasta in 1902 and 1903, as well as his famous 1905 Saurian Expedition to the West Humboldt Range in Nevada.
		In 1920 he was appointed dean of faculties, but he left that same year to become president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. He departure caused the university to combine the Paleontology Department with the Geology Department, angering Merriam's benefactress, Annie Alexander, who subsequently founded and endowed the university's Museum of Paleontology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_C._Merriam (437 words)

	On Her Own Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alexander's life is also important simply as a human story of how an itelligent, active, and strong-minded woman coped with the problems of identity and work in the post-Victorian era.
		Alexander's father founded a Hawaiian sugar empire, and his great wealth afforded his adventurous daughter the opportunity to pursue her many interests.
		Alexander's dealings with scientists and her encouragement--and funding--of women to do field research earned her much admiration, even from those with whom she clashed.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9229.html (631 words)

	MVZ -- History -- Annie M. Alexander
		Annie Montague Alexander was born December 29, 1867, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
		Although she preferred anonymity, it was Alexander's vision and her steadfast commitment to basic research that made possible the scientific contributions of these men.
		While Alexander was not herself a scientist, it was her vision, her money, the specimens that she collected, and her financial and political acumen that created the natural history museums on the Berkeley campus and that permitted men like Joseph Grinnell and John C. Merriam to achieve distinction in their disciplines.
	mvz.berkeley.edu /Annie.html (584 words)

	Annie Montague Alexander
		Miss Alexander was away on one of her field trips at the time; when she returned she was angry that he had not informed her of his plans.
		When the remaining paleontology faculty was merged with the Department of Geological Sciences (which infuriated Merriam), she arranged for the formation of a Museum of Paleontology as a separate unit of the University, independent of the geology department.
		The Annie Montague Alexander Papers in the archives of the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/alexander.html (1213 words)

	Annie Montague Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Annie Montague Alexander (1867 - 1950) was an American financier and paleontological collector.
		She is best known as the benefactress of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the financier ofuniversity museum collections as well as a series of important paleontological expeditions to the western United States at theturn of the 20th century.
		Merriam left the University to become president of the Carnegie Institution, thepaleontology department was merged with the geology department, displeasing bothMerriam and Alexander.
	www.therfcc.org /annie-montague-alexander-102237.html (346 words)

	Pioneering Women Naturalists of the Bay Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Annie Alexander came to her love of nature from her childhood amid the natural wonders on the island of Maui, where she was born in 1867 and lived until her family moved to Oakland when she was in her teens.
		Annie Alexander's pioneering work as a naturalist and benefactress is not well known even today, in part due to her intense dislike of publicity.
		Nevertheless, Annie Alexander's legacy as a naturalist and benefactress of naturalists is enormous and lasting.
	www.baynature.com /2006janmarch/women_naturalists.html (1781 words)

	Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg - A
		The association of Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950), heiress to the C&H Sugar fortune, with prominent University of California paleontologists and zoologists is well known.
		Miss Alexander's continuing association with the UC Museum of Paleontology is further described at the UCMP web site: Annie Montague Alexander: Benefactress of UCMP.
		Annie and Louise kept meticulous field journals, taking their typewriter into the field and illustrating their notes with fl and white photographs.
	ucjeps.berkeley.edu /Alexander/indexA.html (1495 words)

	John C. Merriam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1901 one of his lectures on paleontology inspired the young Annie Montague Alexander, who financed and took part in hisexpedition that year to Fossil Lake in Oregon.
		Alexander, who went on to a lifelong career as a paleontologicalbenefactress, financed his subsequent expeditions to Mount Shasta in 1902 and 1903, as well as his famous 1905 SaurianExpedition to the West Humboldt Range in Nevada.
		In 1920 he was appointed dean of faculties, but he left that same year to becomepresident of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,D.C. He departure caused the university to combine the Paleontology Department with the Geology Department, angering Merriam's benefactress, Annie Alexander, who subsequently founded and endowed theuniversity's Museum of Paleontology.
	www.therfcc.org /john-c.-merriam-65665.html (382 words)

	The Annie Montague Alexander Papers
		The Alexander Papers were given to The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, by Miss Alexander and/or her heirs in 19xx.
		Annie Montague Alexander became interested in paleontological work while attending John C. Merriam's lectures at the University of California in 1900.
		Paleontology, Merriam to AMA, Clark to AMA (1921)
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /archives/alexanderpapers (932 words)

	Annie Oakley (television) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Annie Oakley was a Western television series which fictionalized the life of famous cowgirl Annie Oakley.
		The show starred Gail Davis in the title role, and co-starred Brad Johnson and Jimmy Hawkins, as Annie's brother, Tagg.
		Gail Davis had been discovered by Gene Autry, who cast her in several of his movies, then in his own series, The Gene Autry Show, in whcih she played a variety of characters.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Annie_Oakley_(television).html (720 words)

	Biographies
		She was born in Hawaii in 1867, a descendent of New England missionaries who had settled on the islands early in that century.
		Her father, Samuel Alexander, pioneered the raising of sugar cane and was a partner in the Matson Navigation Company.
		Needless to say, Miss Alexander developed quite a bit of clout with university officials, sometimes lobbying the President and occasionally even the Regents for improvements that she thought were needed.
	www.calcentral.com /~fossils/peoplea.html (1850 words)

	Alexander * The Year of Stalingrad A... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The journal of Alexander Henry the Younger, 17991814.
		Alexander, Whos Not Do You Hear Me I Mean It Going to Move Aladdin Picture Books.
		Shakespeares Young Lovers The Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto, 1935.
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	eastbayexpress.com \| News \| Publishers' Row
		She was way ahead of her time: an explorer, naturalist, farmer, and philanthropist, sugar heiress Annie Montague Alexander founded two UC Berkeley natural history museums in an era when American women weren't allowed to vote.
		Braving the elements and a virtually all-male scientific community, Alexander collected thousands of animal, plant, and fossil specimens throughout an American West that was undergoing rapid development and would never be the same again.
		Yet Alexander's work and that which she funded yielded a wealth of knowledge about what lived where, from bears to ferns to saurians.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2001-11-21/publishers.html (743 words)

	Idaho Native Plant Society -- Sage Notes
		One of the most fascinating early naturalists is Annie Montague Alexander, born in 1867 to a wealthy family from the Hawaiian island of Maui.
		Annie was adventuresome as a child and loved to explore the family’s sugar cane plantations and the tropical wilderness around her.
		Annie had an uncanny knack for finding them and, at age 33, she discovered the first of many living and fossilized plant and animal species previously unknown to science.
	www.idahonativeplants.org /news/news22_2.aspx (5518 words)

	HOT DATES / EAST BAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Annie Montague Alexander was an amateur naturalist and a skilled shot with a rifle.
		She made a lasting contribution to zoology and paleontology and became the benefactor to two natural history museums at UC Berkeley.
		Barbara R. Stein's who wrote "On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West," will present a portrait of Alexander at a program sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Berkeley.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/05/EBGGC58DM81.DTL (410 words)

	California Wild Spring 2002 - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West, by Barbara Stein.
		As heiress to the CandH Hawaiian sugar empire, Alexander would use her wealth and influence to buck the Victorian customs of her time and become one of the most important figures in the establishment of natural sciences in the West.
		Alexander would continue collecting throughout her life and go on to establish UC Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology in 1921.
	www.calacademy.org /calwild/2002spring/stories/reviews.html (1628 words)

	03.29.2005 - California women's "Collective Voice" exhibit
		She was an influential and often controversial member of San Francisco's high society in the Gold Rush era.
		An amateur naturalist/markswoman/farmer/philanthropist, Alexander used the financial resources of her father, founder of a Hawaiian sugar empire, to underwrite numerous expeditions throughout North America and elsewhere.
		Alexander established UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and its Museum of Paleontology, but shied away from public recognition for her good deeds.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/03/29_californiawomen.shtml (972 words)

	Thus Spake Zuska
		There are now seventeen taxa named for Alexander, and there are several others that honor her partner of forty years, Louise Kellog.
		on Alexander makes it sound like she was a minor player in the specimen collecting expeditions.
		by Barbara R. Stein, "On Her Own Terms: Anne Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West" makes clear that Alexander was her own driving force and centrally involved in all the expeditions of which she was a part.
	radio.weblogs.com /0147021/2005/07/22.html (333 words)

	Books-Children by Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move by Judith Viorst, ISBN 0689319584
		Bo bakes a full moon cake as a surprise for his friend Annie, but the outcome is unexpected.
		When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become
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	John Montague
		One of Ireland's best-known poets, John Montague was born in New York.
		In 1953, Montague, also a short story writer and critic of note, left Ireland for Yale on a Fulbright Fellowship.
		Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of - Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of, 1718–92, British politician.
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		At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867Ð1950) was an intrep...
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	Saurian Expedition of 1905
		John C. Merriam of the University of California and was financed by Annie Montague Alexander, who four years early as a student in Berkeley had become interested in Merriam's work.
		Some of the specimens were returned to Berkeley and became part of the collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, which Alexander helped found and underwrite.
		Other specimens found by the expedition are visible at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada.
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	Lefalophodon: Annie Montague Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alexander was introduced to paleontology by her professor J.
		Alexander never married, and collaborated in the field with her companion Louise Kellogg from 1908 on.
		See the Annie Alexander Papers at Berkeley for more information.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /~alroy/lefa/Alexander.html (96 words)

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