Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937)[1] was an American zoologist and marine biologist.
She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut.
In her dissertation, Bush described three new genera and sixteen new species of the Sabellides and Serpulides tribes,[2] which were collected during the Harriman Alaska expedition that her brother-in-law, Wesley R. Coe, attended in 1899.
She wrote "The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides," in Harriman Alaska Expedition, volume XII (1905), besides Deep Water Mollusca (1885) and New Species of Turbonilla (1899).
During her career, Bush published 19 works, between articles and monographs, which was a very high number for women in this area at the time.