Doris Holmes Blake
Doris Holmes Blake | |
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| Born | Doris Mildred Holmes January 11, 1892 |
| Died | December 3, 1978 (aged 86) |
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| Fields | Entomology |
| Institutions | United States Department of Agriculture United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution |
Doris Holmes Blake, née Doris Mildred Holmes[2] (January 11, 1892 – December 3, 1978),[3] was an American entomologist and scientific illustrator.
She was an expert on chrysomelidae (leaf beetles).[1][3]
Life
[edit | edit source]Doris Holmes was raised in a middle-class family in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. from Boston University in 1913 and an M.A. in Zoology and Psychology from Radcliffe College in 1917.[1][3] While at Boston University she worked as a clerk at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and she became a member of Alpha Delta Pi.[1][4] Marrying the botanist and plant taxonomist Sidney Fay Blake in 1918, she worked for the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1919 to 1928. From 1928 she worked at the Department of Entomology of the United States National Museum. Forced to resign in 1933 by her husband's employment at the Department (the law prohibited more than one member of a family holding a government position), she continued studying beetles as an unpaid Associate of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C. until her death.[1]
Some of Blake's entomological and botanical sketches, as well as her non-academic writing, are also included. The papers also include a number of photographs of Blake and her family and of entomologists, both at the Smithsonian and at USDA.[1] Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution.[1][5]
Works
[edit | edit source]- A review of the beetles of the genus Disonycha occurring in America north of Mexico, 1934. Smithsonian Institution.
- A study of LeConte's species of the chrysomelid genus Graphops with descriptions of some new species, 1955
- A review of the beetles of the genus Neobrotica and some closely related genera, 1966. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, v. 118, no. 3529.
- A review of the beetles of the genus Metachroma Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), 1970. Smithsonian contributions to zoology, no. 57.
- The costate species of Colaspis in the United States (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), 1974. Smithsonian contributions to zoology, no. 181.
- The brown semicostate and costate species of Colaspis in Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), 1976. Technical bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture), no. 1534.
References
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- ^ Full maiden name information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service: linked authority record n91024504. Retrieved on 2012-03-31.
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- ^ The Adelphean of Alpha Delta Pi, Vol. 9, p 137. 1916 article about her working on a degree at Radcliffe after graduating from BU. Also Adelphean, Vol. 11, p. 263 has the announcement of her marriage to Sidney Fay Blake, Ph.D.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Doris Holmes Blake Papers, 1899-1985 from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Transcriptions of Doris Holmes Blake Papers, 1899-1985, from the Smithsonian Transcription Center
- Doris Blake: The Courtly Coleopterist
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- People from Stoughton, Massachusetts
- American women entomologists
- Coleopterists
- Smithsonian Institution people
- 1892 births
- 1978 deaths
- American scientific illustrators
- 20th-century American women scientists
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Boston University alumni
- 20th-century American zoologists
- American women illustrators