Frank Mace MacFarland

Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) was an American malacologist associated with Stanford University in California. On August 27, 1902, MacFarland married Miss Olive Knowles Hornbrook who helped him with his work, acting as a skilled technician, and as an 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][2] 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.[3]

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. 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.
  2. Memorial resolution
  3. Frank Mace MacFarland Opisthobranchiate Molluscan Collection
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