Mary Isabel McCracken

Mary Isabel McCracken (1866 – October 29, 1955) was an American entomologist, researcher and teacher.

Career McCracken was born in Oakland, California in 1866. She began her teaching career at Oakland's public schools. After a decade of teaching and at the age of 34 she enrolled at Stanford University.

McCracken continued at Stanford University completing her A.B. degree in 1904, her M.A. in 1905, and her Ph.D. in 1908. McCracken also conducted field observation on numerous birds in the Sierra Nevada. She was also a member of the California Academy of Sciences from 1915 and was named a Fellow in 1929.

Death McCracken died on October 29, 1955, in her home on the Stanford campus.

Selected publications California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert Stanford University Press, 1922 The animals and man: an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Mary Isabel McCracken H. Holt and company, 1911 Occurrence of a Sport in Melasoma (Lina) Scripta and Its Behavior in Heredity by Mary Isabel McCracken Leland Stanford junior university, 1907