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Caroline Augusta Kennard, ''née'' Smith (15 January 1827 - 24 October 1907) was an American amateur scientist and advocate of women's rights. In correspondence with Charles Darwin she challenged his views on the inferiority of women. ==Life== Caroline Augusta Smith was born on 15 January 1827 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.〔(American silversmiths )〕 She was the daughter of James Wiggin Smith and Eliza Folsom, who lived first in Exeter, New Hampshire and later in New York City.〔Charles Edwin Hurd, ''Genealogy and History of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts'', p.572.〕 She married Martin Parry Kennard (1818-1903), a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 1846. Martin Kennard was an anti-slavery activist, who moved to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1854.〔 He helped the black sculptor Edmonia Lewis apply for a passport in 1865. In 1882 Caroline Kennard entered into correspondence with Darwin, arguing against women being judged intellectually inferior to men.〔Kennard to Darwin, 28 Jan 1882. (Letter 13650 ), Darwin Correspondence Project. Accessed 10 March 2013.〕 Kennard was listed in the 1885 ''Scientist's International Directory'' as interested in the botany of ferns and mosses. She published a biography of Dorothea Dix in the late 1880s. On Kennard's death a science scholarship at Radcliffe College was established in her memory by her sister, Mrs Martha T. Fiske Collord.〔''Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College'', 1907-1908, (p.66 ). Accessed 10 March 2013.〕 Kennard's son Frederic Hedge Kennard (1865-1937) was an ornithologist.〔Arthur Cleveland Bent, 'In Memoriam: Frederick Hedge Kennard', ''The Auk'', Vol. 54, No. 3 (July 1937), pp.341-348.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caroline Kennard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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