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= Harriet Randolph =

Harriet Randolph was an American invertabrate zoologist and embryologist who studied and later taught biology and botany at Bryn Mawr College from 1892 to 1913. She recieved her bachelor degree in 1889. She recieved a PhD from Zurich University in 1892 for her study of tubificadae (tube worms) /expand on this/. She continued her studies later in life, taking graduate classes at the University of California, and even continuing her studies at Columbia University.

She was one of the first women to join the American Society of Morphology.

Her work on regeneration in planarians has been considered to be an inspiration for ignitied T. H. Morgan's interest in this subject. Worked under T. H. Morgan as a fellow at Bryn Mawr.

She wrote a textbook Laboratory Directions in General Biology in 1897.

She was born on 27th October, 1856 to Mary and Edward Taylor Randolph. She died in 1927.

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Publications

 * Laboratory Directions in General Biology
 * Randolph, H, The regeneration of the tail in lumbriculus (1892).
 * Paper: spermatogenesis in the earwig.