Amelia Smith Calvert (1876, Philadelphia – 1965) was an American botanist noted for studying the flora of Costa Rica.  She was married to entomologist Philip Powell Calvert. She attended Pennsylvania state university and graduated in 1899 when she got her degree in science and studied botany.
She served as a demonstrator in zoology at Pennsylvania university, and started a research fellowship at Bryn Mayr College. she is known for her study of botany in flora.

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 Amelia Smith Calvert was a demonstrator in zoology at the Pennsylvania state university. where she was a graduate student from 1904 to 1906. In 1909 Amelia Smith Calvert moved to Costa Rica with Philip Powell Calvert, where he would carry out entomological research for two years. This being research of some of the animal species such as caterpillars. While spending these two years in Costa Rica Amelia Smith Calvert would go on to study the inhabitants of the flora.  In the year 1910 Amelia Smith Calvert had returned from her trip with Philip Powell Calvert, where she had studied the Fauna and Flora that in inhabitant Costa Rica.

A Year of Costa Rican Natural History
In the year of 1917 Amelia Smith Calvert and Philip Powel Calvert had written and published a book A Year Of Costa Rican Natural History in reference to the Fauna and Flora She had Studied when she was in Costa Rica. This information would entail that she had gone to Costa Rica to study specific flora while she was staying there. That when Amelia Smith Calvert would come back she would then be able to take what she had analyzed and studied and use it to write her book on botany in flora. In relevance to the study to the fauna and flora Amelia Smith Calvert also writes of how there where many flowers that would bloom in a dry season where many of these flowers would dry out. This had relevance to how many of the fauna and flora where a source of food for many of the insects that Philip Powell Calvert where studying such as butterflies and dragonflies.  Amelia Smith Calvert would research the Fauna, Flora and Insect life found in Costa Rica.

Panama disease

When Amelia Smith Calvert had written her book with Phillip Powel Calvert she had referred to how her travels to Costa Rica would lead to the discovery of the Panama disease in some of the plant life she was studying. Among those plants she had also studied the nature of bananas and how they are able to produce and grow. In her studies of the bananas plantations she had found a dark brown hue. This hue is an insignificant coloration for healthy bananas. These were what Amelia Smith Calvert found important to study, about the rapid growth of the Panama disease. This affects the populace in Puerto Rica. With the knowledge she had pertained to studying botany in the flora of Puerto Rican and the banana plantations, she has become a well-known studying botany in the flora of Puerto Rica and the banana plantations, and she has become a well-known female scientist.

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1876 births
1965 deaths
19th-century American botanists
American women botanists
American botanists
19th-century American women scientists