Katharine Fowler-Billings

Katharine (Kay) Fowler Billings (1902 – December 17, 1997) was an accomplished naturalist and geologist, married to Marland Pratt Billings.

Katharine Fowler Billings died December 17, 1997, in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She was 95.

Associations

• New Hampshire Geological Society, Honorary Fellow

Bibliography

A partial list of books:

• The Gold Missus: A woman prospector in Sierra Leone (1938)
• Geology of the Cardigan and Rumney quadrangles, New Hampshire (1942)
• Igneous and metasedimentary dikes of the Mt. Washington area, New Hampshire (1944)
• Sillimanite deposits in the Monadnock Quadrangle, (New Hampshire. State Planning and Development Commission. Mineral resource survey) (1944)
• The geology of the Monadnock quadrangle, New Hampshire (1949)
• Geology of the Isles of Shoals (1977)
• The geological story of Wellesley (1961)
• Stepping-Stones: The Reminiscences of a Woman Geologist in the Twentieth Century (1996)