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Frank Mace MacFarland

Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) was an American malacologist associated with Stanford University in California. Born in Centralia, Illinois, MacFarland attended DePauw University (A.B. 1889), Stanford University (A.M., 1893) and the University of Wurzburg (PhD, 1896). On August 27, 1902, MacFarland married Olive Knowles Hornbrook (b.30 June 1872, West Virginia; B.L. 1893, Ohio Wesleyan University; A.B. 1908, Stanford; d. 1 May 1962, San Mateo, California). Mrs. MacFarland was a skilled technician and artist whose delicate watercolor paintings illustrated many of his scientific publications.

Frank MacFarland was an authority on the life and habits of nudibranchs and he left unfinished a comprehensive monograph on the group which was published posthumously in 1966. He played a leading role in organizing the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory (now Hopkins Marine Station) in Pacific Grove, California, of which he was in charge from 1910 to 1913 and co-director from 1915 to 1917, and in which he maintained an active interest throughout the remainder of his life.

MacFarland served as President of the California Academy of Sciences from 1934 to 1946; his research collection of opisthobranch mollusks formed the basis of the academy's invertebrate collection.

In 2006, the MacFarland home on the Stanford campus (designed in 1914 by Arthur Bridgman Clark) was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Taxa named in his honor

Gastropods named in honor of Frank Mace MacFarland include one genus and four species:

Taxa named by MacFarland

Publications

  • MacFarland, F. M. 1897. "Celluläre Studien an Mollusken-eiern. I. Zur Befruchtung des Eies von Pleurophyllidia californica (Cooper) Bergh. II. Die Centrosomen bei der Richtungskörperbildung im Ei von Diaulula sandiegensis (Cooper) Bergh." Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Morphologie 10: 227–264, pls. 18–22.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1905. "A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California." Proceedings of the Biological Society, Washington 18: 35–54.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1906. "Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 25: 109-151, pls. 18–31.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1908. "Northern Opisthobranchiata." The Nautilus 22(2): 23–24.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1909. "The opisthobranchiate Mollusca of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil." Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series (2): 1–104, pls. 1–19.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1912. "The nudibranch family Dironidae." Zoologische Jahrbücher Supplement 15(1): 515–536, pls. 30–32.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1918. "The Dolabellinae." Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific by the United States Fish commission steamer Albatross, from August, 1899, to June, 1900. XIX. Published by permission of H.M. Smith, U.S. commissioner of fish and fisheries.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1923. "The morphology of the nudibranch genus Hancockia." Journal of Morphology 38(1): 65–104, pls. 1–6.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1925. "The Acanthodorididae of the California coast." The Nautilus 39(2): 49–65.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1926. "The Acanthodorididae of the California coast." The Nautilus 39(3): 94–103, pls. 2–3.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1929. "Drepania a genus of nudibranchiate mollusks new to California." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 18(15): 485–496, pl. 35.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1931. "Drepanida, new name for Drepania Lafont, preoccupied." The Nautilus 45: 31–32.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1966. "Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America." Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6: 1–546, pls. 1-72.
  • MacFarland, F. M. & Charles Henry O'Donoghue. 1929. "A new species of Corambe from the Pacific coast of North America." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 4, 18(1): 1-27, pls. 1–3.

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