Roxana Stinchfield Ferris

{{short description|U.S. botanist (1895–1978)}}

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| name = Roxana Stinchfield Ferris

| image = Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978) (3397772907).jpg

| caption = At botany desk, Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University

| birth_name =Roxana Judkins Stinchfield

| birth_date = April 13, 1895

| birth_place = Sycamore, California

| death_date = June 30, 1978

| death_place = Palo Alto

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| education = Stanford University

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| occupation = botanist

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| spouse = Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893–1958)

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| nationality = American

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Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978){{cite web|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kzytv4-stnch&id=I680 |author=Tracy L. Morris |title=Roxana Judkins STINCHFIELD |work=STINCHFIELD/STANCHFIELD Family Research |publisher=RootsWeb |accessdate=28 May 2014}} was an American botanist.

She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.{{cite web|author=Marsha Bryant |title=Stinchfield, Daniel |work=First Families in Vanderburgh, IN |publisher=Vanderburgh INGenWeb |url=http://www.ingenweb.org/invanderburgh/firstfamilies/stinchfield.htm |accessdate=28 May 2014}}

In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University with advisor and mentor, LeRoy Abrams and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there.{{cite web|title=Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)|url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290974|website=Smithsonian Institution Archives|accessdate=27 March 2015|date=2011-09-14}} She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico.{{cite web|title=Ferris, Roxana Stinchfield|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?botanistid=26217|website=Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Index of Botanists|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=27 March 2015}}

Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963,{{cite web|last1=Timby|first1=Sara|title=The Dudley Herbarium, Including a Case Study of Terman's Restructuring of the Biology Department|url=http://trees.stanford.edu/PDF/herbarium.pdf|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=27 March 2015}} and died in Palo Alto in 1978.