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Stokey, Alma Gracey

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1877, Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. Died: 1968.

career:

Took her Ph. D. at Chicago in 1908; since 1916 Professor of Botany, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (U.S.A.), worked in the Foreigners’ Laboratory at Buitenzorg, W. Java, from May-July 1931, and once more in 1937.¹ She studied the germination of fern spores and the development of the prothallia, especially those of representatives of more primitive families.²

collections:

She collected ferns at Tjibodas, W. Java (July 1937). The collection was dried at the Buitenzorg Herbarium, identified by O. Posthumus, and subsequently sent to her.

literature:

(1) (cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 51.
(2) A.G. Stokey: ‘Spore germination and vegetative stages of gametophytes of Hymenophyllum and Trichomanes’ (Bot. Gazette 101, 1940, p. 759-790); ‘The gametophyte of Dipteris conjugata’ (Lc. 106, 1945, p. 402-411, 53 fig.).

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci. 1938; Amer. Fern J. 58, 1968, p. 145-154, 1 photogr.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Stokey, Alma Gracey
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1877, Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. Died: 1968.
	career: Took her Ph. D. at Chicago in 1908; since 1916 Professor of Botany, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (U.S.A.), worked in the Foreigners’ Laboratory at Buitenzorg, W. Java, from May-July 1931, and once more in 1937.¹ She studied the germination of fern spores and the development of the prothallia, especially those of representatives of more primitive families.²
	collections: She collected ferns at Tjibodas, W. Java (July 1937). The collection was dried at the Buitenzorg Herbarium, identified by O. Posthumus, and subsequently sent to her.
	literature: (1) (cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 51. (2) A.G. Stokey: ‘Spore germination and vegetative stages of gametophytes of Hymenophyllum and Trichomanes’ (Bot. Gazette 101, 1940, p. 759-790); ‘The gametophyte of Dipteris conjugata’ (Lc. 106, 1945, p. 402-411, 53 fig.).
	biographical data: Amer. Men of Sci. 1938; Amer. Fern J. 58, 1968, p. 145-154, 1 photogr.