Anne Catherine Hof Blinks

Anne Hof and Lawrence Rogers Blinks (1900-1989) were married in 1928. He became a professor of biology at Stanford and director of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove from 1943 to 1965. They had a child, John Rogers Blinks. ==Botany career==

Blinks enrolled at Radcliffe College, the women's partner to then-all-male Harvard University, studying marine biology at Farlow Herbarium. After marrying Lawrence Blinks, she accompanied him to the Bermuda Biological Laboratory. While there they discovered a species of Halicystis that they named for Winthrop Osterhout, Halicystis osterhoutii. The Anne Hof Blinks Fellowship in Marine Biology at the University of Washington was established in her memory to support students from diverse backgrounds. It is now part of the university's Blinks-REU Program of research experiences and internships. ==Textiles career==

Blinks was also known for her work on historic and pre-historical textiles. She focused on the "whole cloth", studying the fibers, dyes, tools, and techniques used to create textiles. in which the yarn is twisted so that it "kinks on itself". This technique has been used by fiber artist Lillian Elliott. She was particularly interested in South American textiles. Among those she studied were the Andean Indians, visiting Santiago, Chile, She also visited, studied and wrote about the production of textiles in Thailand, describing the use of an elaborate supplementary harness of as many as 300 additional lease rods used in the production of royal textiles. Blinks was actively engaged in studying the genetics of sheep, and breeding for particular fleece characteristics Her many years of work in the study, practice and teaching of textiles were acknowledged with the publication of the Festschrift In Celebration of the Curious Mind: A Festschrift to Honor Anne Blinks on Her 80th Birthday (1983). ==References==