Harriet Richardson

Harriet Richardson Searle (May 9, 1874 – March 28, 1958) was an American carcinologist. She was known as the first lady of isopods and was one of the first female carcinologists, with only Mary Jane Rathbun before her.

Biography Richardson was born on May 9, 1874, in Washington, D.C., to Charles and Charlotte Ann Richardson.

In 1901 Richardson was appointed Collaborator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates at the National Museum of Natural History. She earned her PhD in the same field from Columbian University (now George Washington University) in 1903. Her husband died shortly after. In 1972, their son, William Richardson Searle, was buried with them at Arlington National Cemetery.

Outside of her work on isopods, Richardson was the President of the Vassar College Club of Washington, D.C. from 1911–1912 and she was a charter member of the Captain Molly Pitcher Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, going on to be a Historian, Treasurer, Vice-Regent, and then Regent from 1914–1915. She was a member of the Biological Society of Washington, the Washington Academy of Sciences, and the Washington Society of Fine Arts.

Dactylokepon richardsonae Stebbing, 1910 Parabopyrella richardsonae (Nierstrasz & Brender á Brandis, 1929) Parapenaeon richardsonae (Nierstrasz & Brender á Brandis, 1931) Parionella richardsonae Nierstrasz & Brender á Brandis, 1923 Rocinela richardsonae Nierstrasz, 1931 Renocila richardsonae Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1992 Amesopous richardsonae Stebbing, 1905 Neastacilla richardsonae Kussakin, 1982 Munneurycope harrietae Wolff, 1962 Carpias harrietae Pires, 1981 Cymodoce richardsoniae Nobili, 1906 Littorophiloscia richardsonae (Holmes and Gay, 1909) Caecidotea richardsonae Hay, 1901 Lirceus richardsonae Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 Possibly: Pseudidothea richardsoni Hurley, 1957

Select publications

H Richardson. 1905. A monograph on the isopods of North America.- Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 54: i-liii, 1-727. [December.] [Reprinted (1972) Antiquariaat Junk, Lochem, Netherlands.] H Richardson. 1904. Contributions to the natural history of the Isopoda.-Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 27(1350): 1-89. [19 January.] H Richardson. 1910. Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U.S. Fisheries Steamer “Albatross” in 1907–08.— Bureau of Fisheries Document 736: 1–44. H Richardson. 1901. Key to the isopods of the Atlantic coast of North America with descriptions of new and little known species.-Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 23(1222): 493-579. [28 February.] H Richardson. 1909. Isopods collected in the northwest Pacific by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer “Albatross” in 1906.—Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 37(1701): 75–129. [22 October.] H Richardson. 1902. The marine and terrestrial isopods of the Bermudas, with descriptions of new genera and species.—Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences 11(1): 277–310, pls. 37–40. H Richardson. 1899. Key to the isopods of the Pacific coast of North America, with descriptions of twenty-two new species.—Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 21(1175): 815–869. [5 June.] [Reprinted (1899) in Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 4(21): 157–187, (22): 260–277, (23): 321–338.] H Richardson. 1900. Synopses of North-American invertebrates. VIII. The Isopoda. Part I.-American Naturalist 34(399): 207-230. [March.] H Richardson. 1908. Some new Isopoda of the superfamily Aselloidea from the Atlantic coast of North America.— Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 35(1633): 71–86. [30 October.] H Richardson. 1912. Descriptions of a new genus of isopod crustaceans, and of two new species from South America.— Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 43(1929): 201–204. [27 September.]