Roxana Stinchfield Ferris
Roxana ("Roxy") Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978)[1] was an American botanist.
Roxana Stinchfield Ferris | |
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Born | Roxana Judkins Stinchfield April 13, 1895 |
Died | June 30, 1978 Palo Alto |
Nationality | American |
Education | Stanford University |
Occupation | botanist |
Spouse(s) | Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893-1958) |
She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.[2]
In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University, and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there.[3] She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico.[4] Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963,[5] and died in Palo Alto in 1978.
Works
Species named in honor
Several species have been named in honor of Ferris including
- Astragalus tener var. ferrisiae - Ferris' milk-vetch[8]
- Eremogone ferrisiae - Ferris' sandwort[9]
- Lasthenia ferrisiae - Ferris' goldfields
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References
- Tracy L. Morris. "Roxana Judkins STINCHFIELD". STINCHFIELD/STANCHFIELD Family Research. RootsWeb. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- Marsha Bryant. "Stinchfield, Daniel". First Families in Vanderburgh, IN. Vanderburgh INGenWeb. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- "Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2011-09-14. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- "Ferris, Roxana Stinchfield". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Index of Botanists. Harvard University. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- Timby, Sara. "The Dudley Herbarium, Including a Case Study of Terman's Restructuring of the Biology Department" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- Abrams, Le Roy; Ferris, Roxana S. (1923). An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. v.1 (1923). Stanford University: Stanford University Press.
- California Botanical Society.; Society, California Botanical (1959–1960). Madroño; a West American journal of botany. v.15:no.1-8 (1959:Jan.-1960:Oct.). Berkeley: California Botanical Society.CS1 maint: date format (link)
- Liston, Aaron (April 1990). "Taxonomic Notes on Astragalus Section Leptocarpi Subsection Californici (Fabaceae)". Brittonia. 42 (2): 100–104. doi:10.2307/2807621. JSTOR 2807621.
- "Eremogone ferrisiae". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- IPNI. Ferris.
External links
Library resources about Roxana Stinchfield Ferris |
By Roxana Stinchfield Ferris |
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- Brief biography on JSTOR
- The trees and shrubs of western Oregon at WorldCat
- Works by or about Roxana Stinchfield Ferris at Internet Archive
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