Emma Lewis Lipps

Emma Lewis Lipps (8 February 1919 - 19 July 1996) was an American botanist, botany collector, and a professor of biology and Earth science at Shorter College, Rome. Her work was primarily focused on discovering and studying the Pleistocene vertebrates' specimens from the Marshall Forest in Floyd County and the Ladd's Quarry in Bartow County. She co-authored several papers and bibliographies about her findings, including The vascular flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia and A Devonian fauna from the Frog Mountain Sandstone, Floyd County, Georgia.

Early life and education Lipps was born on 8 February 1919 in Alexandria, Virginia, to William Lewis Lipps and Emma Ashton Truslow Lipps.

She completed her bachelors studies from Wesleyan College in 1940 and master's degree from Emory University in 1943. She graduated with a PhD in botany from the University of Tennessee in 1966. Her dissertation was titled Plant communities of a portion of Floyd County, Georgia-especially the Marshall Forest. During this time, she co-authored a seminal paper with Clayton Ray in 1966, followed by a study with Al Holman in 1980s, and an annotated bibliography with Bob Purdy and Bob Martin in 1988.

Shorter University established the Lewis Lipps Ecology Lectureship in 1991 to discuss modern ecological issues. The inaugural lecture was given by Lipps' dissertation advisor, Dr. Hal R. De Selm.

Publications

Lipps, E. L. (1949). Investigation of the effect of niacin on populations of the Mainx strain Euglena gracilis Klebs. (Doctoral dissertation, Emory University). Lipps, E.L. (1966). Plant communities of a portion of Flloyd County, Georgia — Especially the Marshall Forest. Doctoral Thesis, University of Tennessee. Lipps, E. L. and H. R. De Selm. (1969). The vascular flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia. Castanea 34 (4): 414–432. Lipps, E. L., Purdy, R. W., & Martin, R. A. (1988). An annotated bibliography of the Pleistocene vertebrates of Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science, 25, 113–119.