Amelia Smith Calvert

[4] After earning her Bachelor's degree from Penn in 1899, Amelia took on a research fellowship at Bryn Mawr College focusing on embryology and earthworm physiology.

[4] Amelia Smith Calvert became a demonstrator in zoology at the University of Pennsylvania where, briefly, she was a graduate student from 1904 to 1906.

Her trip was far from a vacation, she hiked across the province of Cartago, to rainforest waterfalls and active volcanoes, through pastures and parks, along riverbeds and alleyways, collecting and photographing the region’s plants.

[4] They also traveled extensively in Europe, and voyaged to Britain in 1912 and to Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy in 1929, which are recorded in Amelia Calvert's diaries, held at the American Philosophical Society.

This hue is an insignificant coloration only for healthy bananas so it was important to study about the rapid growth of the Panama disease.

Animal life that Phillip Powell Calvert studied while Phillip and Amelia were in Costa Rica.
Image of the flora that Amelia Smith Calvert studied while in Costa Rica.
Brown coloration in the bananas that were affected by the Panama disease.