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Samuel Stillman Berry (March 16, 1887 – April 9, 1984)[1] was an American marine zoologist specialized in cephalopods.
S. Stillman Berry | |
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Born | Unity, Maine, United States | March 16, 1887
Died | April 9, 1984 97) Winnecook ranch, near Harlowton, Montana[1] | (aged
Education | Stanford University (B.S., Ph.D.), Harvard (M.S.) |
Known for | Work on cephalopods |
Father | Ralph Berry |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Marine zoology |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Berry |
Berry was born in Unity, Maine,[2] but the family home was the Winnecook Ranch in Montana, which had been founded by his father Ralph in 1880.[1] In 1897, he moved with his mother to Redlands, California.[1]
Berry received a B.S. (1909) from Stanford and his M.S. (1910) from Harvard. He then returned to Stanford for his Ph.D. work on cephalopods and got his doctorate in 1913.[1]
From 1913 until 1915, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California.[3] This was the last paid employment he ever held in academia—all his later studies and expeditions were financed by the profits from the family ranch in Montana.[1]
From November 1946 to December 1969, Berry published his own journal, Leaflets in Malacology, which primary contained articles which he had written himself.[4]
Despite his independent status, he became a renowned malacologist, publishing 209 articles and establishing 401 mollusc taxa. His scientific publications dealt with chitons, cephalopods, and land snails.[5] Forty-seven of his published papers were about cephalopods.[5]
Berry also had an interest in horticulture, where he concentrated on the hybridization of irises and daffodils.[3] For some time, from the 1920s until the late 1940s, he ran a horticultural business from Winnecook Ranch, which he had taken over after the death of his father in 1911.[1] In 1917 he became the president of the Winnecook Ranch Company, a post he occupied until his death in 1984.[1]
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