Adele Marion Fielde

Adele Marion Fielde (March 30, 1839 – February 23, 1916) was known for two reasons: a Baptist missionary, and a social activist, scientist, and Humanitarian.

Biography Adelia Field was born in East Rodman, New York on March 30, 1839. Her parents were Leighton Field and Sophia (Tiffany) Field. At age sixteen she started using the pen name Adele M. Fielde, and was later baptized and registered under that name. and she followed, only to find he had passed several weeks before her arrival in July 1886. She never married. Fielde stayed on as a missionary in Bangkok until 1872. Field's later career has led to the assumption that she left her religious beliefs behind, while some scholars view her work as an extension of her faith.

In 1894, after the defeat of the women's suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution, Fielde was one of six prominent suffragists who founded the League for Political Education. She worked with other suffragists to establish the Volunteer Committee with the goal of targeting New York society, using her wealth and status she established as a missionary in China to facilitate her efforts. and which was also used by others including William Morton Wheeler. She published over 20 papers about ants in less than 10 years. She carried out her myrmecological research at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, one of the few institutions that was sympathetic to female students at that time. In addition to studying there, she also gave lectures. and that ants react to vibrations in the ground detected via their legs, rather than 'hearing' sound travelling through the air . This latter finding was determined by playing sounds to various ant species with a range of musical instruments; Fielde was not only the first to show that ants are sensitive to substrate-bourne vibrations but also demonstrated that there are species-level differences in which frequencies the ants respond to .

Fielde also wrote a comprehensive dictionary and guide to the Chinese Swatow dialect, and was known to locals as "Miss Fielde" .

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Taxon named in her honor The Swatow thryssa, Thryssa adelae, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.