Mary Agnes Chase

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (April 29, 1869-September 24, 1963) was an American botanist.

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate for women to conduct such work. Chase joined the Department of Agriculture in 1903 as a botanical illustrator and eventually became Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology, 1907; Assistant Botanist, 1923; and Associate Botanist, 1925. In 1935, became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.

Honors

Eponyms

(Asteraceae) Agnesia Zuloaga & Judz.^[1]
(Poaceae) Agnesia Zuloaga & Judz.^[2]

The standard author abbreviation Chase is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

References

^ Novon 3: 306. 1993 (GCI)
^ Novon 3(3): 306 (1993). (IK)
^ International Plant Names Index. Chase.

Grinstein, Louise S., Biermann, Carol A., Rose, Rose K. Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.

[1] Novon 3: 306. 1993 (GCI)

[2] Novon 3(3): 306 (1993). (IK)

[3] International Plant Names Index. Chase.

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