Eliza Madelina Wilbur Souvielle (October 21, 1851 – March 31, 1930) was a prominent scientist, astronomer, botanist, inventor, author and publisher. She studied at in New York and may have been the first female to lecture in science at Harvard University. She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and her work was published in magazines and newspapers including Scientific American and the New York Herald. She published . Wilbur married Thomas Basnett and moved to Marabanong in 1880. After his death in 1886 she married Frenchman , a throat and lung surgeon.