Margaret Hamilton Storey
Margaret Hamilton Storey (July 31, 1900 – October 18, 1960) was an American museum curator, herpetologist and ichthyologist. She worked for the Stanford University Natural History Museum for over 25 years.
Biography
[edit]Storey was born in San Francisco, California, into an educated household.[1] Her father, Thomas Storey, was the founder of the Stanford University School of Health.[2] Storey attended Cornell University, receiving an A.B. degree in 1922 and received her master's degree in 1936 from Stanford University.[3] She began working at the Stanford Natural History Museum first as a volunteer, but in 1940, was given a "regular staff appointment."[1] Storey worked as both a curator at the museum and also as a librarian of the zoological book collection[1] She worked closely with George S. Myers, supervising the curating.[4] She also edited the Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin and Occasional Papers.[1] She would work at the museum for over twenty-five years.[5]
Storey collected herpetological specimens from the United States Southwest deserts, the Rocky Mountains and Maine.[6] She contributed notes, information and corrections for books about reptiles and amphibians.[7][8] She described several fish species, including Bascanichthys paulensis, Harengula majorina and Callechelys perryae, and, with Myers, Hesperomyrus fryi. A species of Cuban gecko, Sphaerodactylus storeyae, and a species of triplefin blenny, Axoclinus storeyae, are named in her honor.[9][10] Storey and Myers were also very involved in the Stanford Zoology Club, which dated back to the 1890s and in an ichthyology club called the Fishverein.[4]
Storey also served as the only woman Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) track timer in the country for twenty six years.[2]
Storey died after surgery on October 18, 1960.[2] An award, given to the most improved runner on the Stanford Cardinals team, is named after her.[11]
Publications
[edit]- Storey, Margaret (1937). "The Relation Between Normal Range and Mortality of Fishes due to Cold at Sanibel Island, Florida". Ecology. 18 (1): 10–26. Bibcode:1937Ecol...18...10S. doi:10.2307/1932700. JSTOR 1932700. PMC 5822641. PMID 29466976.
- Storey, Margaret (1939). "Contributions toward a revision of the Ophichthyid eels. 1, The genera Callechelys and Bascanichthys, with descriptions of new species and notes on Myrichthys". Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin. 1 (3).
Taxon described by her
[edit]Taxon named in her honor
[edit]- The Triplefin Blenny Axoclinus storeyae (Brock, 1940)[10]
- Sphaerodactylus storeyae, also known commonly as the Isle of Pines sphaero or the Los Canarreos geckolet, is a small species of gecko, a lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Isla de la Juventud in Cuba.[12]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d Balon, Bruton & Noakes 1994, p. 14.
- ^ a b c "Margaret H. Storey". Oakland Tribune. 18 October 1960. Retrieved 4 April 2016 – via Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Tanner, Vasco M. (1960). "Margaret Hamilton Storey (1900-1960)". Western North American Naturalist. 20 (2): 70.
- ^ a b "History of George S. Myers". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 38. 1970. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Bulletin Honors Woman Editor". The Stanford Daily. Vol. 138, no. 40. 17 November 1960. p. 4. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ Burt, Charles E.; Myers, George S. (1942). Neotropical Lizards in the Collection of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. Stanford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780804705790.
- ^ Klauber, Laurence Monroe (1972). Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind. Vol. 1. University of California Press. p. 502. ISBN 9780520017757.
- ^ Pickwell, Gayle (1947). Amphibians and Reptiles of the Pacific States. Stanford University Press. pp. vii. ISBN 9780804715973.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5..
- ^ a b Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (19 July 2024). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 10.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ Neal, Travis (17 September 1999). "Stanford Cross Country Season Off and Running". The Stanford Daily. Vol. 216, no. 1. p. 13C. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ Sphaerodactylus storeyae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Sources
[edit]- Balon, Eugene K.; Bruton, Michael N.; Noakes, David L.G., eds. (1994). Women in Ichthyology: An Anthology in Honour of ET, Ro and Genie. Springer Science + Business Media, B.V. ISBN 9789401101998.
- Myers, G. S. (1961). "Margaret Hamilton Storey, (1900-1960)". Copeia. 1961 (2): 261–263. JSTOR 1440030.
External links
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- 1960 deaths
- Cornell University alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Stanford University people
- 20th-century American women scientists
- American ichthyologists
- Women ichthyologists
- American herpetologists
- Women herpetologists
- 20th-century American zoologists
- American women biologists
- Biologists from California
- Scientists from San Francisco