ACKLEY, May N.
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ACKLEY, Matilda May Nevins (1856-1942), Iowa-born, one of seven children who gained her appreciation of botany late in life (in her mid sixties). Ackley visited Santa Cruz Island the weekend of September 1-3, 1928 with The Nature Club of Southern California. The trip was led by Ralph Hoffmann of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Robert H. Canterbury and Theodore Payne were also on the trip. Canterbury, then gardener at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, “armed with shovel and gunny sacks, scoured the canyons and chaparral slopes for roots and seeds to be added to the island group in the garden.” Payne was “filling his bags with seeds of Eriogonum arborescens…” [SBMNH leaflet October 1928].
Matilda May Nevins = [1882] Henry Clay Ackley (1847-1924)
- Leroy Clifton Ackley (1883-1945) = [1904] Helen M. Isaacs (1884-1968)
- Forrest Marlin Ackley (1885-1917) = [1913] Helen Irene Short (1894-1918)
Ackley collected on:
- Santa Cruz Island (1928)
On her island trip, May Ackley collected plant specimens around Prisoners’ Harbor and Pelican Bay. Sixteen of her specimens are housed at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. A. Cookman, E. Benjamine and A. B. Maescher collected ornithological specimens.
May Ackley died August 19, 1942, and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA, as is her husband, who died in 1924, and her son, Forrest, who had died in 1917.
- 1942. Ewan, Joseph A. Matilda Nevins Ackley American Fern Journal 33(2):79-80, April-June 1943
Island Collections~
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | RSA | September 2, 1928 | RSA-692508 | Athyrium filix-femina subsp. cyclosorum | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-77164 | Polypogon monspeliensis | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-77492 | Urtica dioica subsp. holosericea | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-77550 | Eriogonum grande var. grande | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-77902 | Dendromecon harfordii | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78134 | Lyonothamnus floribundus var. aspleniifolius | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78182 | Adenostoma fasciculatum var. fasciculatum | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78499 | Rhamnus pirifolia | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78802 | Comarostaphylis diversifolia subsp. planifolia | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78832 | Arctostaphylos insularis | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-78860 | Calystegia macrostegia subsp. macrostegia | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-79209 | Mimulus aurantiacus var. parviflorus | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-79533 | Hazardia detonsa | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-79537 | Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-79578 | Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 2, 1928 | SBBG-79709 | Leptosyne gigantea | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | SBBG | September 3, 1928 | SBBG-79501 | Brickellia californica | Plants |
| Santa Cruz Island | May Ackley | RSA | September 3, 1928 | RSA-685674 | Cheilanthes clevelandii | Plants |
