S. Stillman Berry

This article is about the zoologist. For other uses, see Berry (disambiguation).

S. Stillman Berry
Berry with a rare book from his collection, c. 1960s
Born	(1887-03-16)March 16, 1887 Unity, Maine, United States
Died	April 9, 1984(1984-04-09) (aged 97) Winnecook ranch, near Harlowton, Montana[1]
Education	Stanford University (B.S., Ph.D.), Harvard (M.S.)
Known for	Work on cephalopods
Father	Ralph Berry
Scientific career
Fields	Marine zoology
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Berry

Samuel Stillman Berry (March 16, 1887 – April 9, 1984)[1] was an American marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods.

Early life

Berry was born in Unity, Maine,[2] but the family home was the Winnecook Ranch in Montana, which had been founded by his father Ralph in 1880.[1] In 1897, he moved with his mother to Redlands, California.[1]

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.[1]

Career

From 1913 until 1915, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California.[3] 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.[1]

From November 1946 to December 1969, Berry published his own journal, Leaflets in Malacology, which primary contained articles which he had written himself.[4]

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.[5] Forty-seven of his published papers were about cephalopods.[5]

Berry also had an interest in horticulture, where he concentrated on the hybridization of irises and daffodils.[3] 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.[1] In 1917 he became the president of the Winnecook Ranch Company, a post he occupied until his death in 1984.[1]

Works

• "Cephalopods of the genera Sepioloidea, Sepiadorium, and Idiosepius". Philippine Journal of Science. 1: 347–364. 1932. Retrieved 21 October 2021 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• "The cephalopoda of the Hawaiian islands". Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. 32: 257–362. 1912 – via Google Books.
• Berry, S. Stillman (2016). "A New Sierran Pulmonate of the Genus Monadenia". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 54 (1).

See also

• Category:Taxa named by S. Stillman Berry

References

1. Roper, Clyde F. E. (1984). "S. Stillman Berry (1887-1984): A tribute through glimpses and reflections". American Malacological Bulletin. 3 (1): 55–61. Retrieved 21 October 2021 – via Internet Archive.
2. "Record Unit 7335 S. Stillman Berry Papers, 1880-1984". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
3. Hill, Harold M. (March 27, 1997). "A Biographical Sketch of S. Stillman Berry Ph.D." Fortnightly Club of Redlands, California. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
4. Hertz, Carole M. (1999). "Illustration of the types named by S. Stillman Berry in his "Leaflets in Malacology" revised". The Festivus. 31 (Suppl): 1. Retrieved 23 October 2021 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
5. Sweeney, M.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Hochberg, F.G. (1988). "A catalog of the type specimens of recent cephalopoda described by S. Stillman Berry". Malacologia. 29 (1): 7–19. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

• Milo Woodbridge Williams. "S. Stillman Berry and Laura Clark Hubbs". Retrieved 26 April 2016.