In her dissertation, Bush described three new genera and sixteen new species of the Sabellides and Serpulides tribes, which were collected during the Harriman Alaska Expedition that her brother-in-law, Wesley Roswell Coe, attended in 1899.
In her academic work, Bush introduced three new genera and sixteen new species of the Sabellides and Serpulides tribes. These taxa were collected as part of the Harriman Alaska Expedition that her brother-in-law, Wesley Roswell Coe, was present at in 1899.