Frank Mace MacFarland

Frank Mace MacFarland

Frank Mace MacFarland and Olive Knowles Hornbrook MacFarland

Malacologists Frank and Olive (née Hornbrook) MacFarland
Born June 10, 1869
Centralia, Illinois
Died February 21, 1951(1951-02-21) (aged 81)
San Francisco, California
Nationality American
Fields Malacology, Natural History
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater DePauw University
Spouse Olive Knowles Hornbrook

Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) was an American malacologist associated with Stanford University in California. Born in Centralia, Illinois, MacFarland attended DePauw University (A.B. 1889), Stanford University (A.M., 1893) and the University of Wurzburg (PhD, 1896).[1] On August 27, 1902, MacFarland married Olive Knowles Hornbrook (b.30 June 1872, West Virginia; B.L. 1893, Ohio Wesleyan University; A.B. 1908, Stanford; d. 1 May 1962, San Mateo, California).[2][3] Mrs. MacFarland was a skilled technician and artist whose delicate watercolor paintings illustrated many of his scientific publications.

Frank MacFarland was an authority on the life and habits of nudibranchs and he left unfinished a comprehensive monograph on the group which was published posthumously in 1966.[1][4] He played a leading role in organizing the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory (now Hopkins Marine Station) in Pacific Grove, California, of which he was in charge from 1910 to 1913 and co-director from 1915 to 1917, and in which he maintained an active interest throughout the remainder of his life.[5]

MacFarland served as President of the California Academy of Sciences from 1934 to 1946; his research collection of opisthobranch mollusks formed the basis of the Academy's invertebrate collection.[6]

In 2006, the MacFarland home on the Stanford campus (designed in 1914 by Arthur Bridgman Clark) was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[7][8]

Triopha maculata MacFarland. Dorso-lateral view. MacFarland, F. M. (1906) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and Vicinity, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, v.25, 1905, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Taxa named in his honor

Gastropods named in honor of Frank Mace MacFarland include one genus and four species:

Taxa named by MacFarland

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 Blinks, Lawrence Rogers; Turrentine, Lowell; Greulich, William Walter. "Memorial Resolution: Frank Mace MacFarland (b. 1869)" (PDF). Hopkins Marine Station. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Eighteenth Annual Register, 1908-09. Leland Stanford University. June 1909. p. 243. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. ↑ ""California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, Olive H Macfarland, 01 May 1962". FamilySearch. Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  4. ↑ MacFarland, F. M. 1966. Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72.
  5. ↑ Frank Mace MacFarland Opisthobranchiate Molluscan Collection
  6. ↑ Williams, Gary C. (May 11, 2007). "History of Invertebrate Zoology at the California Academy of Sciences" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 58 (12): 209. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  7. ↑ Fornoff, Susan (9 April 2008). "History on tour in Stanford's MacFarland home". SFGate.com. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "National Register of Historical Places". National Park Service. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
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