Elizabeth Carrington Morris

With her sister, Margaretta Morris, she has been credited by historian Catherine McNeur as helping to transform American science in the 19th century.

[6] Elizabeth and her sister, Margaretta, used the back garden of the family home in Germantown to observe and study insects and plants.

[6] This was described by Samuel Hotchkin in Ancient and Modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill (1889):The garden, so protected by its trees and shrubbery as to retain the attractions of its original seclusion, was for many years the beautiful scene of the scientific researches of Miss Elizabeth Carrington Morris, who, retiring in disposition, was an accomplished botanist, and numbered among her many scientific correspondents Dr. William Huttall, Dr. William C. Darlington, of West Chester, and Dr. Asa Gray, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[7]The Morris sisters had a wide circle of correspondents, which included botanist Asa Gray[8] and social reformer Dorothea Dix.

[4] Elizabeth Carrington Morris died at home in Germantown on February 12, 1865[7] and was buried at Saint Luke's Episcopal Churchyard.