Wilton Ivie

Wilton Ivie
Born	Vaine Wilton Ivie March 28, 1907 Eureka, Utah,U.S.
Died	August 8, 1969 (aged 62) Kansas,U.S.
Alma mater	University of Utah
Children	Larry Ivie
Scientific career
Fields	Arachnology
Institutions	University of Utah
Academic advisors	Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Vaine Wilton Ivie(March 28, 1907 – August 8, 1969) was an Americanarachnologist,who described hundreds of new species and many new genera ofspiders,both under his own name and in collaboration withRalph Vary Chamberlin.He was employed by theAmerican Museum of Natural Historyin New York. He also was a supporter of theTechnocracy movement.

Biography

Wilton Ivie was born inEureka, Utahon March 28, 1907.He attended theUniversity of Utahearning a BSc in 1930 and an MSc in 1932, working under Ralph V. Chamberlin. He remained at Utah as an instructor in zoology from 1932 to 1947, during which time he continued to work on spiders.

For the last nine years of his life he worked at theAmerican Museum of Natural History.He died as a result of an auto accident in Kansas on 8 August 1969, during an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History.

Taxonomic works

Ivie published many texts of information on spiders, often with Chamberlin, for example,New tarantulas from the southwestern states,1939, andNew spiders from Mexico and Panama,in which species described or mentioned includeAphonopelma iodius,Aphonopelma moderatum,Aphonopelma radinum,Aphonopelma vorhiesiandBrachypelma embrithes.

Other works:

• The Scientific Attitude
• Some New Spiders from Ohio(five species described).
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society 1967 New York Entomological Societyby Wilton Ivie: New synonyms of one genus and twenty-four species, as well as twenty-one new combinations and a few other notes pertaining to American spiders, most of them in the family Linyphiidae, particularly the sub-family Erigoninae, are recorded.
• Man and the Nature of Things: Wilton Ivie 1954

Technocracy movement

He was a member ofTechnocracyfrom 1937, serving on the staff at CHQ as Director of Publications. He was the author of Comments on the News which appeared monthly in Technocratic Trendevents, and wrote numerous articles, some under the pseudonymTechno Critic,in addition to the numerous articles under his own name.

Taxa named in his honor

• IviellaLehtinen, 1967
• Aphonopelma ivieiSmith, 1995– now a synonym ofAphonopelma iodius

External links

• Works by or about Wilton Ivieat theInternet Archive

Online technocracy texts

• Technocracy – America Must Show The Way – Wilton Ivie – (1937/1948)
• Technocracy – Globaloney Fantasy – Wilton Ivie – (1944)
• Technocracy – The Ecology of Man – Wilton Ivie – (1948)
• Technocracy – Who Is A Technocrat – Wilton Ivie – (1953)
• Technocracy – A Place To Live In – Wilton Ivie – (1955)