Alice Maria Ottley
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Born | 1882 New York ![]() |
Died | 1971 Chula Vista ![]() |
Occupation | Botanist, botanical collector, university teacher, scientific illustrator, curator ![]() |
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Alice Maria Ottley (1882–1971) was a botanist, author, assistant professor and curator of the herbarium at Wellesley College.[1] She collected and studied American flora, particularly species of Lotus, and publishing books and articles on botany.[2][3]
Biography
In September 1919 Ottley was appointed the Assistant Professor of Botany at Wellesley College.[4] Ottley was educated at Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in 1921 under the direction of Willis Linn Jepson.[5][6] She was an Exchange Professor for several months in 1925 at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.[5] Ottley served as curator of the Wellesley Herbarium from 1922 to 1930 before becoming Department of Botany chairman.[5] Ottley was elected a member of Sigma Xi in June 1938.[7] In 1939, she resigned from the faculty to travel and work with her aunt, the botanist Margaret Clay Ferguson.[5]
The standard author abbreviation Ottley is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]
Publications
- Ottley, Alice Maria (1909). The development of the gametophytes and fertilization in Juniperus communis and Juniperus virginiana. University of Chicago Press. OCLC 798116862.
- Ottley, Alice M. (1918) A Contribution to the Life History of Impatiens sultani Botanical gazette 66(4) 289–317.
- Ottley, Alice Maria (1923). A revision of the California species of Lotus. University of California Press. OCLC 3928973.
- Ottley, Alice M. (1938) The Occurrence of Centipeda minima in Wellesley, Massachusetts Rhodora 40, 219–220.
- Ottley, Alice M (1944). The American Loti with special consideration of a proposed section, Simpeteria. OCLC 78430978.[1]
References
- ^ Hirsch, G. Chr (2013). Index Biologorum: Inverstigatores · Laboratoria Periodica (in German). Springer-Verlag. p. 404. ISBN 9783642993800. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ Chatterley, L. Matthew; Welsh, Blaine T.; Welsh, Stanley L. (1982). "Preliminary Index of Authors of Utah Plant Names". The Great Basin Naturalist. 42 (3): 385–394. JSTOR 41711941.
- ^ "Author attributions". www.calflora.net. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ "Changes in Offices of the College". Wellesley College News. September 25, 1919. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Zanoni, Thomas A.; Whalen, Eileen A. (1995). "A Brief History of the Wellesley College Herbarium (WELC) and a List of Its Type Specimens of Vascular Plants Now Deposited at The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY)". Brittonia. 47 (2): 147–155. doi:10.1007/BF02809638. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2806954. S2CID 7313877.
- ^ Constance, Lincoln (1995). "Homage to Willis Linn Jepson". Madroño. 42: 96–102 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Elections to Sigma Xi". Wellesley College News. June 21, 1938. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Ottley.