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Avery Ransome Grant[edit]

Is there any obituary or biographical info about "Avery Ransome Grant", aka Dr. Avery Grant Test who married zoologist Frederick H. Test? She was a researcher at the University of Michigan for a while.[1] S. F. Light spoke highly of her in the early edition of his textbook from 1941. After that, I can't find anything about her. Obviously, she married and had children, but there's some indication she still did research. Viriditas (talk) 09:14, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found this in the book Acmaeidae by David R. Lindberg:

The master”s and doctoral theses (1933 and 1937) of Avery Ransome Grant (later A.R. Test) remain largely unpublished, except for several ecological notes and papers (Test, 1936, 1945, 1946) and the descriptions of several new species, including one eastern Pacific taxon, Acmaea conus.^[2]

The bibliography, on p. 111, lists:

Test, A.R. [Grant]. 1933. A revision of the California limpets of the genus Acmaea Eschscholtz. M.A. Thesis, Dept. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 142 pp. [as A.R. Grant].
——— 1936. (Note on fungus Didymella conchae in limpet shells). Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 189–190. (as A.R. Grant in Bonar, 1936, q.v.; see also Lindberg, 1978a).
——— 1937. A systematic revision of the genus Acmaea Eschscholtz, including consideration of ecology and speciation. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 431 pp. [as A.R. Grant] (December, 1937).
——— 1945a. Description of a new species of Acmaea. Nautilus 58:92–96. [Erratum, Ibid., 144]
——— 1945b. Ecology of California Acmaea. Ecology 26: 395–405.
——— 1946. Speciations in limpets of the genus Acmaea. Univ. Michigan, Contrib. Lab. Vert. Biol. no. 31, 24 pp.

Somewhat curiously, she was associated at U-M with the Laboratory of Vertebrate Biology,^[3] although limpets are notoriously spineless.

Lindberg might be able to provide more information. His email address can be seen here. --Lambiam 13:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Notoriously spineless" - wink. :) -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 18:44, 21 November 2023 (UTC) [reply]