Carlotta Case Hall (January 19, 1880 – 1949) was an American botanist and university professor who collected and published on ferns. She also co-authored a handbook on the plants of Yosemite National Park.
Carlotta Hall was born in Kingsville, Ohio, in 1880 to Adelaide Percy (Hardy) Case and Quincy A. Case. [1] She studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.S. in 1904. [1] In 1910 she married the botanist Harvey Monroe Hall, with whom she had a daughter, Martha, in 1916. [2]
Hall became a fern collector and an assistant professor of botany at the University of California, Berkeley. She published on ferns of the Pacific Coast and co-wrote the illustrated handbook A Yosemite Nature (1912) with her husband as a pocket-sized botanical guidebook to Yosemite National Park. The book covers more than 900 species, omitting only the grasses, sedges, and rushes. [3] [4]
She was a member of the California Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of several European scientific societies.
A species of California fern, the tufted lacefern or Carlotta Hall's lace fern ( Aspidotis carlotta-halliae), is named in her honor.
Her papers, along with those of her husband and daughter, are held by UC Berkeley. [5]
As author;
As editor;
As co-author with Harvey Monroe Hall;
Carlotta Case Hall (January 19, 1880 – 1949) was an American botanist and university professor who collected and published on ferns. She also co-authored a handbook on the plants of Yosemite National Park.
Carlotta Hall was born in Kingsville, Ohio, in 1880 to Adelaide Percy (Hardy) Case and Quincy A. Case. [1] She studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.S. in 1904. [1] In 1910 she married the botanist Harvey Monroe Hall, with whom she had a daughter, Martha, in 1916. [2]
Hall became a fern collector and an assistant professor of botany at the University of California, Berkeley. She published on ferns of the Pacific Coast and co-wrote the illustrated handbook A Yosemite Nature (1912) with her husband as a pocket-sized botanical guidebook to Yosemite National Park. The book covers more than 900 species, omitting only the grasses, sedges, and rushes. [3] [4]
She was a member of the California Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of several European scientific societies.
A species of California fern, the tufted lacefern or Carlotta Hall's lace fern ( Aspidotis carlotta-halliae), is named in her honor.
Her papers, along with those of her husband and daughter, are held by UC Berkeley. [5]
As author;
As editor;
As co-author with Harvey Monroe Hall;