Cora H. Clarke

Cora Huidekoper Clarke (February 9, 1851 – April 2, 1916) was an American amateur entomologist, science educator and botanist specializing in bryophytes.

Her chief entomological studies were on galls caused by wasps (Cynipidae) and flies (Cecidomyiidae), which she reared, photographed and documented, with several new species being described from the collections that she made.

Cora was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania to Anna (Huidekoper) and Reverend James Freeman Clarke, a Unitarian minister and anti-slavery activist, who founded Church of the Disciples in Boston.

She studied at a horticultural school in Newton and at the Bussey Institution in Jamaica Plain, Boston where she was taught by Francis Parkman.

[4][5] Among her scientific contributions were studies on gall insects, especially Cynipidae which she reared and used her photography skills to document.