Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (July 29, 1852 – January 15, 1938) was an American entomologist, educator, historian, author, and museum curator.

She worked closely with zoologist Alpheus Hyatt at the Boston Society of Natural History, and she was the curator of the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts, for a quarter of a century.

[1] She entered MIT the year that the Woman's Laboratory opened under the direction of chemist Ellen Swallow Richards.

[1] Sheldon published on zoological, geological, and historical subjects, including Insecta (1890), a survey of the insects coauthored with her mentor Alpheus Hyatt.

[1] One of her bequests was to Deerfield Academy to found the George Albert Arms Science Building in memory of her father.