A STUDY OF METAMORPHOSIS From: Americas | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Reidell, Heidi | Copyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Mar/Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

More than 300 years ago, Maria Sibylla Merian set out for Suriname to pursue her life's passion-moths and butterflies-and in the process enriched scientific understanding

If a woman in her fifties were to disembark today from a cruise ship in Suriname bent on scientific pursuits, no one would think it odd. But in 1699, when 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian arrived from Amsterdam to spend years unraveling the mysteries of metamorphosis like a cocoon of silk, it was anything but usual.

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