Wiley, Grace Olive, 1883-1948

found: Some notes on the biology of Curicta from Texas, 1922:title page (Grace Olive Wiley)

found: Wikipedia, via WWW, August 26, 2011(Grace Olive Wiley; American herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes; born 1883; originally worked as an entomologist at the University of Kansas, but during her mid-thirties she began collecting and observing rattlesnakes while doing field work in the Southwestern United States; she became the first person to successfully breed rattlesnakes in captivity; from 1923 to 1933, she was a curator at the Minneapolis Public Library, which had an extensive collective of live reptiles and amphibians in its now-defunct natural history museum; was curator of reptiles at the Brookfield Zoo, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, from 1934-1935; became a snake trainer and reptile consultant for Hollywood films and operated a reptile zoo in Cypress, California; died July 20, 1948 of a snakebite she received while posing for a photographer)

found: ancestry.com, via WWW, August 26, 2011(Grace Olive Wiley; born February 18, 1883 in Kansas; died July 20, 1948 in Los Angeles)