Rozella B. Smith

Rozella B. Smith (1911–1987) was an American herpetologist and data archivist and analyst.

Biography Rozella Pearl Beverly Blood was an only child, born 18 May 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, to Charles Gillman Blood and Sarah Dorothy "Dollie" Sherman. She died in Boulder, Colorado on 15 December 1987.

At the University of Illinois, she attended classes as "an unattached graduate student" from 1953 to 1961. Later, in 1963, she earned a second a Master of Science degree, this time in library science. Then, she earned a second teaching certificate so she could lead classes in ancient history for a year at the University High School beginning in 1965.

Selected works Rozella Smith was author or co-author of seven books and close to 70 articles, as well as many other projects that remained unfinished and unpublished, such as several data analysis works about Mexican herpetology. Smith, Hobart Muir, and Rozella B. Smith. Early foundations of Mexican herpetology: An annotated and indexed bibliography of the herpetological publications of Alfredo Dugès, 1826-1910. University of Illinois Press, 1969. Bock, C. E., and Rozella B. Smith. "An analysis of Colorado Christmas counts." Am. Birds 25.6 (1971): 945–947. Smith, Hobart M., and Rozella B. Smith. "Synopsis of the Herpetofauna of Mexico, vol. 1, Analysis of the Literature on the Mexican Axolotl." Augusta: Lundberg Press (1971). Smith, Hobart M., and Rozella B. Smith. "Chresonymy ex synonymy." Systematic Biology 21.4 (1972): 445-445. Smith, Hobart M., Rozella B. Smith, and H. Lewis Sawin. "The generic name of the neotropical semiterrestrial emydine turtles." Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903) (1974): 211–218. Smith, Hobart M., Rozella B. Smith, and H. Lewis Sawin. "A summary of snake classification (Reptilia, Serpentes)." Journal of Herpetology (1977): 115–121. Pérez-Higareda, Gonzalo, Hobart M. Smith, and Rozella B. Smith. "A new species of Tantilla from Veracruz, Mexico." Journal of herpetology 19.2 (1985): 290–292. Southwick, Charles H., and Rozella B. Smith. "The growth of primate field studies." Comparative primate biology 2.pt A (1986): 73–91.