Edith May Farr

Edith May Farr (1864-1956) was an American botanist noted for her study of Rocky Mountain and Canadian flora.[1][2] Originally from Philadelphia, she was active collecting plants in the Selkirk Range and in the southern Canadian Rockies.[3] In 1904, she collected specimens for the University of Pennsylvania in the Rocky Mountains with Mary Schäffer Warren and Olive S. Day.[4]

Publications

• Farr, Edith May (1907). Contributions to a catalogue of the flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. hdl:2027/hvd.32044106346042.

References

1. "Farr, Edith May (1864-1956)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
2. Creese, Mary R. S. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III : South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Creese, Thomas M. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-0-8108-7289-9. OCLC 659564120.
3. Pringle, James S. (July–September 1995). "The History of the Exploration of the Vascular Flora of Canada". The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 109 (3): 291–356. Retrieved 10 August 2018. Mention should, however, be made of Edith May Farr (1864-1956) of Philadelphia, who published on the plants of southern British Columbia and Alberta from 1904 to 1906, including a list of the plants of the Selkirk Range and the southern Canadian Rockies based on her collections (Farr 1907). Arnica louiseana Farr, a distinctive species with nodding flower-heads, named for Lake Louise, Alberta, was described in one of these papers (Farr 1906) and remains generally accepted as a species.
4. Skidmore, Colleen (2017). Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-1-77212-298-5. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
5. IPNI.  Farr.