Inez Luanne Wilder

Inez Luanne Wilder (born Inez Luanne Whipple on May 19, 1871 in Diamond Hill , Rhode Island ; died on April 29, 1929 in Northampton , Massachusetts) was an American zoologist.

Live and act

Inez Luanne Whipple was born in Diamond Hill (Rhode Island) , Rhode Island , in 1871, to Eliab Daniel Whipple and his wife Sarah, née Wheaton. She finished her school career at Rhode Island Normal School in 1890 and became a teacher before graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts . In 1900 she received her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brown University in Providence and in 1901 she was among the first graduate students in the zoology department of Smith College. In 1904 she got a Master of Arts from Smith College, On July 26, 1906, she married her former zoology professor Harris Hawthorne Wilder . In 1914 Inez Wilder got her own chair in zoology and worked as a full professor at Smith College.

Inez Whipple published a scientific paper together with Wilder in 1904 entitled The Ventral Surface of the Mammalian Chiridium with special reference to the conditions found in man. In this work, she pointed out that the surface of the hands and feet of all mammals, including humans, develop in a similar manner to a certain extent and then differ individually. With her work she influenced on the one hand the consideration of the genetics of limb development and on the other hand, through the first systematic description of the papillary ridges, laid the basis for the criminalistic identification process of people through fingerprints . In 1913 she wrote the scientific textbook Laboratory Studies in Mammalian Anatomy , followed in 1925 by Morphology of Animal Metamorphosis .

Inez Wilders died in Northampton , Massachusetts in 1929 and was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton.

Dedication names

The yellow salamender Eurycea wilderae is named after Inez Wilder.

Inez Wilder's name is the epithet of the yellow salamanders belonging Eurycea wilderae included and was thus by Emmett Reid Dunn honored the 1920s. The naming of the Kolan bank vole or Inez red back vole (Caryomys inez) as inez by Oldfield Thomas in 1909 is not further explained in the first description, but it is speculated that the name also refers to Inez Luanne Wilder.

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b Inez Luanne Wilder in the Find a Grave database (English); accessed on September 29, 2016.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d “Inez.” In: Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 204; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .
^ Inez L. Whipple, Harris Hawthorne Wilder: The Ventral Surface of the Mammalian Chiridium with special reference to the conditions found in man. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie 7 (H. 2), 1904; Pp. 261-368. ( JSTOR 25745588 )

literature

"Inez." In: Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 204; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .

Web links

Inez Luanne Wilder in the database of Find a Grave (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Wilder, Inez Luanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Whipple, Inez Luanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diamond Hill , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1929
Place of death	Northampton , Massachusetts

[Findagrave-1] Inez Luanne Wilder in the Find a Grave database (English); accessed on September 29, 2016.

[Beolens_et_al._2009-2] A ^b ^c ^d “Inez.” In: Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 204; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .

[Whipple_&_Wilder_1904-3] Inez L. Whipple, Harris Hawthorne Wilder: The Ventral Surface of the Mammalian Chiridium with special reference to the conditions found in man. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie 7 (H. 2), 1904; Pp. 261-368. ( JSTOR 25745588 )