Carlotta Case Hall

Carlotta Case Hall (January 19, 1880–1949) was an American botanist and university professor who collected and published on ferns. She also co-authored a handbook on the plants of Yosemite National Park.

Biography

Carlotta Hall was born in Kingsville, Ohio, in 1880 to Adelaide Percy (Hardy) Case and Quincy A. Case.[1] She studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.S. in 1904.[1] In 1910 she married the botanist Harvey Monroe Hall, with whom she had a daughter, Martha, in 1916.[2]

Hall became a fern collector and an assistant professor of botany at the University of California, Berkeley. She published on ferns of the Pacific Coast and co-wrote the illustrated handbook A Yosemite Nature (1912) with her husband as a pocket-sized botanical guidebook to Yosemite National Park. The book covers more than 900 species, omitting only the grasses, sedges, and rushes.[3][4]

She was a member of the California Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of several European scientific societies.

A species of California fern, the tufted lacefern or Carlotta Hall's lace fern (Aspidotis carlotta-halliae), is named in her honor.

Her papers, along with those of her husband and daughter, are held by UC Berkeley.[5]

Selected publications

As author;

  • "Notholaena copelandii, a Newly Recognized Species of the Mexican Texano Region". J. Am Fern 40 (2), 1950, 178-187.
  • "A Pellaea of Baja California". J. Am. Fern 37 (4), 1947, 111-114.
  • "Observations on Western Botrychiums". J. Am Fern 33 (4), 1943, 119-130.

As editor;

  • The Pacific Coast Species of Polypodium. University of California, 1918.

As co-author with Harvey Monroe Hall;

  • A Yosemite Nature: A Descriptive Account of the Ferns and Flowering Plants, Including the Trees, of the Yosemite National Park. P. Elder & Co. 1912.
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References
  1. Leonard, John W. Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company, 1914, p. 353.
  2. "Hall, Carlotta Case". Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), University of Virginia.
  3. "Book Reviews: A Yosemite Flora". The Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. 8 (1911–12), p. 295.
  4. "Hall, Carlotta Case". WorldCat Identities website.
  5. "Harvey M. and Carlotta C. Hall papers, 1895-1949". The University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley.
  6. IPNI.  C.C.Hall.
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