bio.wikisort.org - Researcher

Search / Calendar

Margaret Clay Ferguson was an American botanist best known for advancing scientific education in the field of botany.[1] She also contributed on the life histories of North American pines.

For the political scientist, see Margaret Ferguson (political scientist).

Margaret Clay Ferguson
Born(1863-08-29)August 29, 1863
Orleans, New York, United States
DiedAugust 28, 1951(1951-08-28) (aged 87)
San Diego, California, United States
Known forFirst woman president of the Botanical Society of America
AwardsHonorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke College
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsWellesley College
Author abbrev. (botany)M.C.Ferguson

She was born in Orleans, New York in 1863 and attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York. Ferguson attended Wellesley College, where she graduated in botany and chemistry in 1891, receiving her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1901.[2]

She was the first female President of the Botanical Society of America in 1929.


Career


She became professor of botany and head of the department at Wellesley College in 1930.[2] She collected botany specimens with her niece Alice Maria Ottley.[3]

Ferguson worked on a variety of systems including Fungi, Pine and Petunia. Her study on the latter revealed how plant flower color and pattern do not follow Mendelian laws of inheritance. Ferguson encouraged many women botanists during her time at Wellesley College where lab work was a major of her teaching.[2]

In 1931 Susan Minns donated funds to Wellesley College to support Ferguson in her research.[4] In 1932, Ferguson retired from Wellesley College, though she continued researching until 1938. She received an Honorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke.

In her later years, she spent time in Florida before moving to San Diego where she died of a heart attack in 1951.[5]

Greenhouses in the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens are named in her honor.


Taxonomist


The standard author abbreviation M.C.Ferguson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
Seasonal Display House in the Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouses at Wellesley College.
Seasonal Display House in the Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouses at Wellesley College.

See also



References


  1. Carey, Jr, Charles W. (February 2000). "Ferguson, Margaret Clay". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  2. Proffitt, Pamela, ed. (1999). Notable women scientists. Detroit [u.a.]: Gale Group. ISBN 0787639001.
  3. "Ferguson, Margaret Clay & Ottley, Alice Maria". kiki.huh.harvard.edu. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  4. "Bequests and Gifts". Wellesley College News. June 22, 1931. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  5. Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara S., eds. (1996). Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 128–131. ISBN 0313293023.
  6. IPNI.  M.C.Ferguson.


Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии