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Adeline Sarah Ames
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Born | (1879-10-06)October 6, 1879
Henderson, York County, Nebraska
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Died | February 11, 1976(1976-02-11) (aged 96)
Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
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Resting place | Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | B.S., A.M., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., Cornell University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Mycology |
Institutions | Assistant Forest Pathologist, Department of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., 1913; Professor of Biology, Sweet Briar College, 1920 - 1941 |
Author abbrev. (botany) | A.Ames |
Adeline Sarah Ames (1879–1976) was an American mycologist who specialized in the study of mycelium.[1][2][3]
Born October 6, 1879, in Henderson, York County, Nebraska, Ames was the eldest of four children of Elwyn Ames and Hettie Owen Ames. She attended the University of Nebraska, (B.A., A.M., 1903) and received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1913.[4] She died in Long Beach, California, on February 11, 1976.
In 1913, Ames served as Assistant Forest Pathologist in the Department of Plant IndustryinWashington, D.C.[5] In 1918, she also worked with George Francis AtkinsoninTacoma, Washington collecting fleshy fungus flora.[6] From 1920 to 1941, she was a biology professor at Sweet Briar College.[7]
In February 1913, while a graduate student at Cornell University, she studied the collection of Polyporaceae at the New York Botanical Garden, with special reference to the species occurring in the United States.[8] In 1913, she published the article "A New Wood-Destroying Fungus" in the Botanical Gazette where she worked with Atkinson in Cornell examining polypores collected in the engineering building at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute growing on woodwork. The fungus was identified as a new species, Poria atrosporia, mycelium with pale umbrinous coloration within the substratum or in a superficial layer found on wood from conifers.[9]
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