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This essay illustrates how members of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), and most prominently among them Milicent Shinn, a University of California, Berkeley graduate, created an unprecedented network of at-home scientific observation of infants that spanned the North American continent. Shinn and her female peers were inspired by contemporary scholarly enthusiasm for the physiological and mental development of infants and toddlers. During the last decades of the 19th century men of science discovered in their own and others' offspring, to borrow Charles Darwin's phrase, ‘objects of natural history.’ This analysis of unpublished archival materials reveals how the ACA's collective at-home observation of babies transformed the nursery into a laboratory and mothers into scientific observers. The practices developed by Shinn and her network of college-educated mothers blurred distinctions between university and home, expert and amateur. The most visible outcome of the network's enterprise was Shinn's 1907 authoritative study, The Development of the Senses in the First Three Years of Childhood.
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