S. Stillman Berry
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox scientist Samuel Stillman Berry (March 16, 1887 – April 9, 1984)<ref name="Roper 1984">Template:Cite journal</ref> was an American marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods.
Early lifeEdit
Berry was born in Unity, Maine,<ref name="Smithsonian">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but the family home was the Winnecook Ranch in Montana, which had been founded by his father Ralph in 1880.<ref name="Roper 1984" /> In 1897, he moved with his mother to Redlands, California.<ref name="Roper 1984" />
Berry received a B.S. (1909) from Stanford and his M.S. (1910) from Harvard. He then returned to Stanford for his Ph.D. work on cephalopods and got his doctorate in 1913.<ref name="Roper 1984" />
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From 1913 until 1915, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California.<ref name="Hill 1997">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This was the last paid employment he ever held in academia—all his later studies and expeditions were financed by the profits from the family ranch in Montana.<ref name="Roper 1984" />
From November 1946 to December 1969, Berry published his own journal, Leaflets in Malacology, which primary contained articles which he had written himself.<ref name="Hertz">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Despite his independent status, he became a renowned malacologist, publishing 209 articles and establishing 401 mollusc taxa. His scientific publications dealt with chitons, cephalopods, and land snails.<ref name="Sweeney 1988" /> Forty-seven of his published papers were about cephalopods.<ref name="Sweeney 1988">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Berry also had an interest in horticulture, where he concentrated on the hybridization of irises and daffodils.<ref name="Hill 1997" /> For some time, from the 1920s until the late 1940s, he ran a horticultural business from Winnecook Ranch, which he had taken over after the death of his father in 1911.<ref name="Roper 1984" /> In 1917 he became the president of the Winnecook Ranch Company, a post he occupied until his death in 1984.<ref name="Roper 1984" />
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