Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)

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Object Details

Subject

Ferris, Gordon Floyd 1893-1958

Ferris, Roxana S (Roxana Stinchfield) 1895-

Stanford University

Dudley Herbarium

Summary

After Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978) received an A.M. in botany from Stanford University (1916), she joined the research and curatorial staff of the university's Dudley Herbarium. Throughout her career, which continued after the death of her husband, Stanford entomologist Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893-1958), and even after her official retirement in 1963, she collected over 14,000 botanical specimens, served as co-editor of the classic reference work Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, and wrote such books as Death Valley Wildflowers and Flowers of Point Reyes National Seashore.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0592

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Local number

SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0592]

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Type

Black-and-white photographs

Place

Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.)

Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Topic

Botany

Women scientists

Wild flowers

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_arc_290974