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Drafting 3/9/18
Lydia Folger was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1822, to Gideon and Eunice Macy Folger, a historic Massachusetts family descended from Peter Foulger (1618-1690). Lydia was the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Peter Foulger and Mary Morrill Foulger, through them she was the first cousin four times removed of Benjamin Franklin. Other notable family members included her extended cousins Lucretia Coffin Mott and Maria Mitchell and her paternal aunt Phebe Folger Coleman. Lydia was also a member of the Starbuck whaling family of Nantucket through her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Starbuck Folger (April 13, 1738 - 1821). Her mother was notably a member of the Macy family of Nantucket whose descendants would later found Macy's department stores.

Folger married Lorenzo Niles Fowler, a phrenologist, on September 19, 1844, after meeting him at the house of her paternal uncle, Walter Folger, Jr., an "eccentric and famous astronomer-navigator in Nantucket". The couple had three daughters. Two daughters, Amelia (b. 1846) and Lydia (b. 1850), died young; the third daughter, Jessie Allen Fowler (b. 1856 or 1860), was born in 1860 and was, like her father, also a phrenologist. Jessie was the honorary secretary of the British Women's Temperance Association, and succeeded her mother in that position. Like his brother, Orson Squire Fowler, Lorenzo Fowler was a well-known phrenologist; the New York Times noted in his obituary that "Prof. Fowler examined the heads of many distinguished men, among them Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Baron Rothschild, Li Hung Chang, and Sir Henry Irving."

Article Evaluation/Review for History of Science Class 2/16/18
monsoon

As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes it is. There is: entymology, history, strength of impact, process, global monsoon, Africa (West African and Southeast African), North American, Asia, Australia, and Europe sections.
 * The history section was a bit distracting because it kinda summed up the history of only two of the many global monsoons, which is weird because the article has a section for all the global regions. Also, this article seems to be an article that is related strictly to the weather pattern of monsoon, and not so much it's impact on global societies, so the history section threw me off.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Nope, this seems pretty unbiased and is fairly science based.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * There doesn't seem to be multiple viewpoints, because this is mostly scientific about the monsoons' meteorology.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Yes, the link to the Bay of Bengal worked

Rhjohn0909 (talk) 23:46, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Yes, each fact I've seen has a scientific or other reasonable source.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Based on a world history class I took, a section or a link to another wikipeidia article about how the Indian Ocean monsoons influenced Indian Ocean knowledge of the physical world (science) and trading should be added. The monsoon wind patterns greatly influenced how Indians related to the natural world, which actually spread new technologies and ideas around the globe.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * There's debate on what a monsoon really is, and how to define it. Therefore, somewhere along the lines, someone added in a disclaimer about how the article defines monsoon as a broader definition than may be traditional. (they cited a source).
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * It's rated as a level 4- Vital Article and is part of Wikiprojects: Meteorology, Non-tropical storms, Southeast Asia
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * We haven't talked about this topic much in class yet since we're focusing more on Western Science. This topic falls more into Asian History of Science, or World History of Science.

Draft of edits for the page Environmental Engineering 2/23/18
Adding a source and more details about the Harappan civilization in the Indus Valley that was one of the ancient examples of environmental engineering.

More specifically, the Indus Valley Civilization has advanced control over the water in their society. The public work structures found at various sites in the area include wells, public baths, storage tanks, and a drinking water system as well as a city-wide sewage collection system. They also had an early version of a canal irrigation system that was needed for their large scale agriculture. This is what was actually put in the article after editing it there:

More specifically, the Indus Valley Civilization (also called the Harappan civilization) had advanced control over the water in their society. The public work structures found at various sites in the area include wells, public baths, storage tanks, a drinking water system,and a city-wide sewage collection system. They also had an early version of a canal irrigation system that was needed for their large scale agriculture.

3/2/18
There was only a small biography written about her. There is also a list of writings. But it would be good to write more about her medical advances and her contribution to the medical field.

Start compiling a list of sources.