American naturalist, illustrator and writer Anna Botsford Comstock was born #OTD in 1854.
The first female professor at Cornell University, who wrote The Handbook of Nature Study (1911). She is known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Botsford_Comstock
Books by Anna Botsford Comstock at BHL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181015044520/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=Anna+Botsford+Comstock#/titles