Alice Johnson

Alice Johnson (7 July 1860 – 13 January 1940) was an English zoologist. She also edited the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research from 1899 to 1916. She was educated in Cambridge and Dover, entering Newnham College in 1878. From 1884 to 1890 Johnson was also a demonstrator in animal morphology at the laboratory. She continued her studies with Francis Balfour and, after Balfour's death in 1882, with Adam Sedgwick. Her research included studies of the early development of the newt. In 1884, she published the first paper by a woman to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. She also published a study on the development of cranial nerves in the newt embryo with Lilian Sheldon, then a student at Newnham College. Johnson resigned from the SPR in 1917.

Eleanor Sidgwick became principal for Newnham College in 1892 and Johnson served as her secretary until 1903. From 1893 to 1902, Johnson was also an associate of the college.

Publications

Johnson, Alice. (1908). Report on Some Recent Sittings for Physical Phenomena in America. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21: 94-135. Johnson, Alice. (1908). On the Automatic Writing of Mrs. Holland. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21: 166-391. Johnson, Alice. (1909). The Education of the Sitter. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21: 483-511.