About Maria Louisa Pike
Maria Louisa Pike was an American artist, illustrator and naturalist.
Maria Louisa Pike ( – 1892 ) was an American naturalist.
Born in England, her father was Benjamin Hadley, British Commissioner to South Africa. She was private secretary to her father for several years, and employed much of her spare time in studying and making sketches of the flora of South Africa. She went to Mauritius in 1870 and became acquainted with Nicolas Pike, U.S. consul, who was engaged in collecting natural history specimens for the Louis Agassiz Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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American naturalist
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Maria Louisa Pike died in 1892.
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Maria Louisa Pike was an artist, illustrator and naturalist.
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