Lucy Mary Cavanagh

Lucy Mary Cavanagh (1871–1936) was an American botanist and plant collector, noted for her identification of several species of bryophytes.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The standard author abbreviation Cavanagh is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

Works[]

Cavanagh, Lucy M. (1919). The mosses of Iowa, an exological and taxonomic study. University of Iowa. p. 1928. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
Cavanagh, Lucy M. (1929). "Mosses New to Iowa". The Bryologist. 32 (6): 112–113. doi:10.2307/3238695. JSTOR 3238695.

References[]

^ "Biographies of Putnam Museum Herbarium Collectors". plantsofiowa.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018. In 1902 Ms. Cavanagh became the herbarium assistant at the University of Iowa (Paris 1937) and was subsequently named assistant curator in 1911. She served as an assistant to Bohumil Shimek in plant taxonomy at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (State University of Iowa 1911) and continued her herbarium work at the University of Iowa until her death in 1936 (Lewis 2006). Ms. Cavanagh was a bryologist and, though she did some collecting in Idaho and Montana, her botanical interests focused on the mosses of Iowa (Cavanagh 1919, 1929, 1929-1931). She was a member of the Sullivant Moss Society and the Iowa Academy of Science (Paris 1937).
^ Paris, Clark D. (1937). "Lucy M. Cavanagh". Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science. 44: 23–24.
^ "Lucy Mary Cavanagh (1871-1936) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018. She was particularly interested in bryophytes and published a number of papers on the bryoflora of Iowa based on her own specimens as well as those of a colleague.
^ "History". www.public.iastate.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2018. 1911 Lucy M. Cavanagh becomes Assistant Curator of the Herbarium and continues in that position until her death in 1936.
^ IPNI. Cavanagh.

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[1] "Biographies of Putnam Museum Herbarium Collectors". plantsofiowa.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018. In 1902 Ms. Cavanagh became the herbarium assistant at the University of Iowa (Paris 1937) and was subsequently named assistant curator in 1911. She served as an assistant to Bohumil Shimek in plant taxonomy at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (State University of Iowa 1911) and continued her herbarium work at the University of Iowa until her death in 1936 (Lewis 2006). Ms. Cavanagh was a bryologist and, though she did some collecting in Idaho and Montana, her botanical interests focused on the mosses of Iowa (Cavanagh 1919, 1929, 1929-1931). She was a member of the Sullivant Moss Society and the Iowa Academy of Science (Paris 1937).

[2] Paris, Clark D. (1937). "Lucy M. Cavanagh". Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science. 44: 23–24.

[3] "Lucy Mary Cavanagh (1871-1936) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018. She was particularly interested in bryophytes and published a number of papers on the bryoflora of Iowa based on her own specimens as well as those of a colleague.

[4] "History". www.public.iastate.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2018. 1911 Lucy M. Cavanagh becomes Assistant Curator of the Herbarium and continues in that position until her death in 1936.

[5] IPNI. Cavanagh.

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