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Dr Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth (1871–1939) was an American botanist, born in Woodstock, Champaign County, Ohio. She was daughter of George M. Riddle and Ida Riddle and a direct descendant of John Cotton.

Early life and education

Born 18 March 1871, one of several children of Ida (nee Carlton) and George Riddle. Studied at Ohio State University where she received her BS in 1897, MS in 1898 and her doctorate in botany in 1905 - the first botany doctorate and the second doctorate of any kind awarded by the institution.

Life

Riddle taught at the Akeley Institute, Michigan, from 1899 to 1900. In 1901 she was curator of natural history at Washburn College in Topeka. She then worked as a high school teacher at Altoona, Kansas, 1901–02, returning to Washburn College as curator from 1903 to 1904.

In 1906 Riddle married Bernard Bryan Smyth, curator of both the herbarium and ornithological collections at Kansas State Museum.

Also 1906 she joined the staff of Kansas State Museum, Topeka, becoming a curator in 1913 and staying there until 1915. In 1917 she once again took the role of curator at Washburn College.

She returned to high school teaching at Munden, Kansas between 1917 and 1918, before becoming a school superintendent until 1920.

She was at Ottawa University as assistant biology professor from 1921 to 1924.

Riddle was a member of the AAAS, the Agassiz Association, the Britton and Brown Botanical Club and both the Kansas and Ohio Academies of Science

Riddle died in Cleveland, Ohio on 2 February 1939

Works

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (November 2017)

• (with Bernard B. Smyth) (1911). "Catalogue of the Flora of Kansas, Part I". Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 23/4(?): 273–95.
• "The Embryology of Alyssum". Botanical Gazette. 27: 314–323. 1899.
• "Development of the Embryo Sac and Embryo of Staphylea trifolia". Ohio Naturalist. 5: 353–363. 1905.
• Occurrence of Podagrion Mantis in the Eggs of the Common Mantis. Trans. of the Kansas Academy of Sci. (1903-) 21: 178-179

References

1. Rudolph, Emanuel David (1 May 1990). "Women Who Studied Plants in the Pre-Twentieth Century United States and Canada". Taxon. 39 (2): 151–205. doi:10.2307/1223016. JSTOR 1223016.
2. Joy Harvey and Marilyn Ogilvie (1 January 2000). "Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth". In Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey (eds.). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Vol. 2. New York and London: Routledge. p. 1099. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.

External links

• Occurrence of Podagrion Mantis in the Eggs of the Common Mantis
• Studies on Fasciation Smyth's thesis

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