Fanny D. Bergen

Fanny D. Bergen Fanny Dickerson Bergen (née Frances Dickerson; February 4, 1846 – September 1, 1924) was an American folklorist, ethnobiologist, and author. She was the co-author, with her husband Joseph Young Bergen, of The Development Theory (1884) and A Primer of Darwinism and Organic Evolution (1890). Quotes Briggle. — To be in an uneasy mental condition, to shift the attention rapidly from one thing to another. “Don’t briggle so.” In common use in Ohio. —Fanny D. Bergen, Cambridge, Mass. Waste-Basket of Words 155 The Journal of American Folk-lore II, April-June 1889 V text at archive.org ... Our popular name of Saccharina latissima Devil's apron for the familiar kelp, Laminaria longicruris, doubtless arises from the giant size of some of these plants, and I am told that in Japan this prefix sometimes designates an unusually large species. For instance, a monstrous thistle is called devil-thistle. Also a large variety of the particular rhomboidal-shaped Chinese nuts called Water caltrop hishi are popularly known in Japan as devil-hishi. However, with the Japanese as with us, devil may mean "armed," or uncanny in appearance, as the "devil-lotus," one with very prickly leaves. Our well-known Opuntia humifusa prickly pear, Opuntia Rafinesqii or O. vulgaris, when cultivated in northern Ohio, is somewhat generally known as devil's tongue, which must seem a most fitting name to any one who has imprudently filled the tips of his fingers with the insinuating barbed bristles. Popular American plant names Botanical Gazette November 1892 71 11 363–380 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/326860 10.1086/326860 (quote from p. 364) Our Black-billed cuckoo America cuckoos are less common with us than the Common cuckoo famous European species seems to be throughout northern and western Europe. The note of our birds is less peculiar, and therefore it does not seem to have attracted much popular attention. Many intelligent people are acquainted neither the appearance nor the notes of the two species common in the northeastern States. It is therefore not remarkable that our folk-lore should be almost destitute of the wealth of significance attached to the European cuckoo as a fortune-teller, a weather-prophet, a magical creature which can change into a hawk, an immortal and omniscient being. Animal and Plant Lore: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk American Folklore Society. Memoirs, vol. VII Houghton, Mifflin 1899 https://books.google.com/books?id=HDwbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA134 134 External links Category:1846 births Category:1924 deaths Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Scientists from Ohio Category:Science authors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women scientists from the United States