Annie Law

Annie Elisabeth Law (1842–12 January 1889)[1] was a British-American conchologist, who discovered 11 species and one genus of mollusks, but did not publish formal descriptions of them.

[7] The family migrated to the United States in around 1850, settling in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee.

[7] After her parents had died, Law spent time in California, including four years in Hollister, San Benito County.

While residing in Hollister Law visited Blount County and collected ethnological artefacts from a native American burial mound.

[7] Law collected specimens in the mountainous regions of North Carolina and Tennessee.