Ralph Vary Chamberlin

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Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967) was an American zoologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University from 1908 to 1911, and at the University of Utah from 1925 to 1938.

Chamberlin lived with the Gosiute Indians to study plants and wrote Ethnobotany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.

Chamberlin married Daisy Della Ferguson in 1899. He also later married Edith Simmons in 1922.

In addition to many of his scientific writings he was also the author of The University of Utah: The First Hundred Years.

Chamberlin described 77 genera and 1001 species from 1904 to 1958, 464 species and 38 genera of them together with Wilton Ivie.

Chamberlin is the uncle of Joseph Conrad Chamberlin, with whom he described several species of pseudoscorpions.

References

External links

Ethnobotany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah
Works by or about Ralph Vary Chamberlin in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Chamberlin, Ralph Vary
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Short description	American entomologist
Date of birth	1879
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Date of death	1967
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