Vaine Wilton Ivie (March 28, 1907 – August 8, 1969) was an American arachnologist, who described hundreds of new species and many new genera of spiders, both under his own name and in collaboration with Ralph Vary Chamberlin.
[1] He attended the University of Utah earning 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.
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.
[4] Other works: He was a member of Technocracy from 1937, serving on the staff at CHQ as Director of Publications.