Alice Carter Cook (April 8, 1868 – June 14, 1943), (born Alice Carter), was an American botanist and author whose plant collections are now held by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
[1] Carter studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary before enrolling at Syracuse University for her doctorate.
Carter taught at Mount Holyoke for three years before attending Cornell University where she earned an M.S.
In addition to botanical publications, Cook contributed several articles to Popular Science Monthly and Ladies' Home Journal.
[3][4][5][6] Cook also wrote an anthropological profile of the indigenous native people of the Canary Islands, and published poems, short stories, and two plays.