Ira Loren Wiggins

Ira Loren Wiggins
Botanist Ira L. Wiggins in 1951. Photo credit: Stanford Historical Photos Collection.
Born January 1, 1899
Madison, Wisconsin
Died November 28, 1987(1987-11-28) (aged 88)
Palo Alto, California
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
Scientific career
Fields Botany, Natural History
Author abbrev. (botany) Wiggins

Ira Loren Wiggins (1 January 1899 – 28 November 1987) was an American botanist, Curator of the Dudley Herbarium, and Director of the Natural History Museum (1940-1962) at Stanford University.[1] He was a Stanford faculty member from 1929 until his retirement in 1964. He was the first recipient of the Fellow's Medal of the California Academy of Sciences. His Flora of Baja California is a standard work on the botany of the Baja region.

Wiggins attended Occidental College as an undergraduate and received his M.A. at Stanford, studying with LeRoy Abrams; he earned his PhD in 1930 with a thesis on the flora of San Diego County. Wiggins took several field trips to the Sonoran Desert, collaborating with Forrest Shreve in a description of the desert flora of Baja California. He published extensively on the flora of the desert, the ecology of the Arctic Slope of Alaska, and flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands.

Legacy

Wiggins is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of lizards, Phrynosoma wigginsi and Xantusia wigginsi.[2]

Selected publications

  • A Flora of the Alaskan Arctic Slope; Ira Loren Wiggins & John Thomas Hunter (1962)
  • Flora of the Sonoran Desert; Ira Loren Wiggins & Forrest Shreve (1964)
  • The Flora of the Galapagos Islands; Ira Loren Wiggins & Duncan Macnair Porter; Stanford University Press (1971)
  • Flora of Baja California; Ira Loren Wiggins (1980)

References

  1. ↑ "Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  2. ↑ 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. ("Wiggins", p. 285).
  3. ↑ IPNI.  Wiggins.

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