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

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 Meyers 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
  • Storey, Margaret (1937). "The Relation Between Normal Range and Mortality of Fishes due to Cold at Sanibel Island, Florida". Ecology. 18 (1): 10–26. 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).

References

Citations
  1. Balong, Bruton and Noakes 1994, p. 14.
  2. "Margaret H. Storey". Oakland Tribune. 18 October 1960. Retrieved 4 April 2016 – via Newspaper Archive.
  3. Tanner, Vasco M. (1960). "Margaret Hamilton Storey (1900-1960)". Western North American Naturalist. 20 (2): 70.
  4. "History of George S. Myers". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 38. 1970. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. "Bulletin Honors Woman Editor". The Stanford Daily. 138 (40). 17 November 1960. p. 4. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  6. 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.
  7. Klauber, Laurence Monroe (1972). Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind. 1. University of California Press. p. 502. ISBN 9780520017757.
  8. Pickwell, Gayle (1947). Amphibians and Reptiles of the Pacific States. Stanford University Press. pp. vii. ISBN 9780804715973.
  9. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Storey", p. 256).
  10. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  11. Neal, Travis (17 September 1999). "Stanford Cross Country Season Off and Running". The Stanford Daily. 216 (1). p. 13C. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

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