Mary Agnes Chase

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963), botanist sitting at desk with specimens.

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (April 29, 1869-September 24, 1963) was an American botanist. She 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, she became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.

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Eponyms

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

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

References

1. ^ Novon 3: 306. 1993 (GCI)
2. ^ Novon 3(3): 306 (1993). (IK)
3. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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

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Name	Chase, Mary Agnes
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Date of birth	1869
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Date of death	1963
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