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Ethel Zoe Bailey

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Ethel Zoe Bailey
BornNovember 17, 1889
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Died1983
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationB.A., Zoology
Alma materSmith College
Known forCurating Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, compiling large seed and nursery catalogue
ParentLiberty Hyde Bailey
AwardsGeorge Robert White Medal, 1967, Smith College Medal, 1970
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Zoology
InstitutionsCornell University

Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889-1983) was a U.S. botanist and the first curator of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University from 1935 to 1957. She created the Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection and in 1912 was the first woman in Ithaca, New York to earn a driver's license.

Early life and education

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Ethel Zoe Bailey was born on November 17, 1889[1] to her mother and father, botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey.[2] She graduated from Smith College in 1911 with her bachelor's degree in zoology,[2] and afterward worked at Cornell University alongside her father, editing several of his publications, including Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture and Manual of Cultivated Plants.[2]

Career

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Bailey traveled to countries including Venezuela and Trinidad on research excursions with her father.[3] She co-authored two reference books with her father, including Hortus and Hortus Second, the latter of which published in 1969.[4] After her father's death, Bailey revised[5] and oversaw the publication of a third and updated volume, Hortus Third, with the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium in 1975.[6]

Bailey worked at Cornell University's Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium as the institution's first curator from 1935 to 1957.[2] She retired from Cornell in 1957, but continued to volunteer at the Hortorium until her death in 1983.[2] In order to transport herself to and from the Hortorium, Bailey earned her driver's license in 1912, and was the first woman in Ithaca, New York to do so.[2]

While at Cornell, Bailey contributed to Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture and the Manual of Cultivated Plants and edited the first eight volumes of the academic journal, Gentes Herbarum.[7] She also compiled and indexed botanical samples from different countries.[2] This catalogue of samples, now called the Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection, is on display at Cornell.[8]

Bailey is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca, New York.

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

References

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  1. ^ John William Leonard (1908). Men of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. L.R. Hamersly. p. 112. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g D.M. Bates (1989). Ethel Z. Bailey. Baileya. pp. 1–4.
  3. ^ Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. The Garden. 1921. p. 95. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  4. ^ Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey (1969). Hortus the Second. Macmillan Company. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. ^ Edmund N. O'Rourke Jr. (2004). Gardening in the Humid South. LSU Press. p. 341. ISBN 9780807129746. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  6. ^ Julie Newman (2011). Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A to Z Guide. Sage. p. 22. ISBN 9781412996877. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Ethel Z. Bailey". Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Man for All Seasons. Cornell University. 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  8. ^ "In Vibrant Color: Historical Seed and Nursery Catalogs from the Ethel Z. Bailey Collection". Cornell University. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  E.Z.Bailey.
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