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Doris Holmes Blake's Degrees

PhD Entomology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Entomology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Doris Holmes Blake, née Doris Mildred Holmes , was an American entomologist and scientific illustrator. She was an expert on chrysomelidae . Life Doris Holmes was raised in a middle-class family in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. from Boston University in 1913 and an M.A. in Zoology and Psychology from Radcliffe College in 1917. While at Boston University she became a member of Alpha Delta Pi. Marrying the botanist and plant taxonomist Sidney Fay Blake in 1918, she worked for the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1919 to 1928. From 1928 she worked at the Department of Entomology of the United States National Museum. Forced to resign in 1933 by her husband's employment at the Department , she continued studying beetles as an unpaid Associate of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C. until her death.

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Doris Holmes Blake's Published Works

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Revision of the beetles of the genus Disonycha occurring in America north of Mexico (22)
Revision of the Vittate Species of the Chrysomelid Beetle Genus Disonyclia from the Americas South of the United States (1955) (17)
The costate species of Colaspis in the United States (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). (1975) (12)
A review of the beetles of the genus Metachroma Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (1970) (12)
Notes on New and Old Species of Alticinae (Coleoptera) from the West Indies (1964) (10)
A study of LeConte's types of the beetles in the genus Monoxia, with descriptions of new species (1939) (10)
Twelve new species of chrysomelid beetles from the West Indies (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2217 (1965) (9)
The Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Strabala Chevrolat (1953) (8)
Notes on West Indian and Central American flea-beetles (Halticinae) (1931) (8)
Revision of the species of beetles of the genus Trirhabda north of Mexico (1931) (8)
New West Indian and Central American Chrysomelidae (1934) (7)
The generic position of Hypolampsis pilosa (Illiger) and some related new species (Coleoptera: Halticidae) (1943) (7)
A Review of Some Galerucine Beetles with Excised Middle Tibiae in the Male (1958) (7)
The chrysomelid beetles Luperodes bivittatus (LeConte) and varicornis (LeConte) and some allied species (1942) (5)
Notes on some West Indian Chrysomelidae (5)
Revision of the Beetles of Genus Glyptoscelis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (1967) (4)
Six New Species of Megistops with Keys to the Known Species (Coleoptera) (1952) (4)
More New Galerucine Beetles with Excised Middle Tibiae in the Male (1966) (3)
New eumolpid beetles from the West Indies. (1947) (3)
Some New West Indian Eumolpid Beetles (1958) (2)
Two New Clavicorns From the United States (2)
New species of Cahetocnema and other chrysomelids (Col.) from the West Indies. (1941) (2)
Some new chrysomelid beetles from Cuba (1970) (2)
Species of beetles of the genus Lactica from the West Indies closely related to Lp tibialisp lOlivierr (1946) (2)
SIDNEY FAY BLAKE (1892 ‐ 1959) (1960) (2)
The Brown Semicostate and Costate Species of Colaspis in Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (1976) (2)
Seven New Flea Beetles From the West Indies (Coleoptera—Chrysomelidæ) (1948) (1)
A Review of the Beetles of the Genus Neobrotica and Some Closely Related Genera (1966) (1)
Some new and old species of Colaspis in the West Indies (1967) (1)
Note on the Habits of Sphenophorus Pontederiæ Chttn (0)
A note on four old species names in Colaspis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (1976) (0)
Note on the Habits of Sphenophorus pontederioe (0)
Six new species of beetles of a eumolpid genus to the West Indies (1945) (0)
Record Unit 7310 Doris Holmes Blake Papers, 1899-1985 (0)
Note on the habits of Lixus blakeae Chttn (0)

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