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A fact from Mary Cynthia Dickerson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 November 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Cynthia Dickerson.

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Reptiles named after Dickerson

Cadea parlirostrata - Dickerson's Worm Lizard
Cadea parlirostrata - Dickerson's Worm Lizard
Cnemaspis dickersonae - Dickerson's Gecko
Uta concinna - Dickerson's Side-blotched Lizard
Aspidoscelis tigris dickersonae - Dickerson's Desert Whiptail
Holbrookia maculata dickersonae - Dickerson's Earless Lizard
Crotaphytus dickersonae - Dickerson's Collared Lizard

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References

^ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2011. Print.

AlekPas (talk) 19:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)AlekPas[reply]

@AlekPas: The true eponyms are already included (i.e. species that were named by other workers in honor of Dickerson). The other names are solely common names, of which any organism may have multiple, and as far as I know simply refer to the fact that Dickerson herself described the species, so I'm not sure how relevant their inclusion in this article would be. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:54, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Addition to early life and career

Taught nature study and Rhode Island State normal school, which was designed to save city-born children from the ravages of modernity.

Wrote articles in the magazine "The Pageant of Nature" from January-December 1907. Wanted to inform readers about the seasonal patterns of in the lives of small creatures, to read tracks in the snow, and to smell summer's passing.

Dickerson considered exhibition work to be of equal importance to research she developed the concept of hereptological "habitat groups" (dioramas) by employing a variety of preparation techniques, especially wax casting, to create lifelike models. This helped to create a more integrated exhibit.

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AlekPas (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2016 (UTC)AlekPas[reply]

Addition to later years and death

These letters profess a passionate and deep longing and undying love that was not reciprocated by Stefansson.

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AlekPas (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2016 (UTC)AlekPas[reply]

References

^ Fabian, Ann. “Charming Toads." Michigan Quarterly Review 52.1 (2013): 1. Web
^ Fabian, Ann. “Charming Toads." Michigan Quarterly Review 52.1 (2013): 1. Web

[1] Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2011. Print.

[2] Fabian, Ann. “Charming Toads." Michigan Quarterly Review 52.1 (2013): 1. Web

[3] Fabian, Ann. “Charming Toads." Michigan Quarterly Review 52.1 (2013): 1. Web

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