Alice Maria Ottley

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Alice Maria Ottley
Born1882
New York Edit this on Wikidata
Died1971
Chula Vista Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationBotanist, botanical collector, university teacher, scientific illustrator, curator Edit this on Wikidata
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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[edit]

Ottley was born on the 20th of November 1882 to Bell Mariah Ferguson and her husband Clarence Ottley. 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]

In 1999 the plant genus Ottleya was named in her honour as a result of her being the first to describe the group, undertaking an important revision of its species and drew the attention to the flower symmetry as a taxonomic character in Papilionaceae-Loteae.[8]

The standard author abbreviation Ottley is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

Publications[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ Hirsch, G. Chr (2013). Index Biologorum: Inverstigatores · Laboratoria Periodica (in German). Springer-Verlag. p. 404. ISBN 9783642993800. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Author attributions". www.calflora.net. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  4. ^ "Changes in Offices of the College". Wellesley College News. September 25, 1919. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Constance, Lincoln (1995). "Homage to Willis Linn Jepson". Madroño. 42: 96–102 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  7. ^ "Elections to Sigma Xi". Wellesley College News. June 21, 1938. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  8. ^ Sokoloff, D. D. (January 1999). "Ottleya , a new genus of Papilionaceae — Loteae from North America". Feddes Repertorium. 110 (1–2): 89–97. doi:10.1002/fedr.19991100115. ISSN 0014-8962.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Ottley.
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