The University of North Carolina Herbarium
has only a few of I.F. Lewis' botanical specimens. With approximately
10% of NCU's collection databased, we have found five specimens
ca. 1901, collected near the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill campus, probably when he was an undergraduate. We have found
two specimens collected in 1944 in Virginia, one from the Mountain
Lake Biological Station and one from the University of Virginia
campus in Charlottesville. As more of NCU's collection is catalogued,
no doubt we will find additional specimens collected by I.F. Lewis.
I.F. Lewis was one of four children born
to Richard Henry Lewis (1850-1926), a physician, and Cornelia
Viola Battle (1857-1886), daughter of UNC President Kemp Plummer
Battle. Upon Cornelia's death, Richard Lewis married Mary Long
Gordon of Charlottesville, Va. Their only daughter was newswoman
and feminist Nell (Cornelia) Battle Lewis (1893-1956).
I. F. Lewis graduated from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an A.B. degree in 1902.
In 1903 he completed his S.M. with a minor in botany at UNC-Chapel
Hill. He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1908 with his
thesis on an alga, "The life history of Griffithsia Bornetiana."
While living in Baltimore, he was a member of the Baltimore Field
Naturalist Club.
Lewis spent his academic career at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville, and died there in 1964.
Lewis, Ivey F. and Lucile Walton (1958)
Gall-formation on Hamamelis virginiana resulting from
material injected by the aphid Hormaphis hamamelidis.
Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. LXXVII,
no. 2, April, 1958.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1957) A history of Mountain
Lake [manuscript] : address given to faculty and students at Mountain
Lake Biological Station, Mountain Lake, Va., Giles Co., 1957 June
20 [Source: University of Virginia Library, Special Collections]
Lewis, Ivey F. (1954) Mountain Lake Biological
Station 25th anniversary celebration [manuscript] 1954 July 17
[Source: University of Virginia Library, Special Collections]
Lewis, Ivey F. (1948) History of Biology
at the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1948, [Source: University
of Virginia Library, Special Collections]
Lewis, Ivey F. (1948?) Key to genera of
Virginia mosses. [Source: University of Virginia Library, Special
Collections]
Lewis, Ivey F. and Lucile Walton (1947)
Initiation of the cone gall of witch hazel. Science 106: [pages
unknown].
Lewis, Ivey F. and Hilah Bryan (1941) A new protophyte from the
dry Tortugas. American Journal of Botany, v. 28 (4): 343-348.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1940) Cell reactions. The
American Naturalist 74: 97-106.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1925) A new conjugate from
Woods Hole. American Journal of Botany 12: 351-357.
Lewis, Ivey F. and Conway Zirkle. (1920)
Cytology and systematic position of Porphyridium cruentium
Naegeli. American Journal of Botany 7(8): 333-340.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1919) A tribute to president
Graham of North Carolina. From : Alumni bulletin of the University
of Viginia, Third ser., v. 12, no. 1 (Jan. 1919). Charlottesville,
Va. : University of Virginia Press.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1917) The vegetation of
Shackleford Bank. Edwards & Broughton Printing Co. State Printers,
Raleigh, NC.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1910) Periodicity in dictyota
at Naples. Botanical Gazette 50(1): 59-64.
Lewis, Ivey F. (1905) Notes on the development
of Phytolacca decandra L. Johns Hopkins University Circular,
no. 178, May 1905, pages 35-43.
