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'''Edith Layard Stephens''' (1884-1966) was a [[South Africa]]n [[botanist]], a leading authority on [[algae]] and [[fungi]], particularly edible and poisonous mushrooms.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=A. C.|title=A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa: A Collection of Essays Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa|date=1977|publisher=Royal Society of South Africa|page=249}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Creese|first=Mary R.S. Creese, with contributions by Thomas M.|title=Ladies in the laboratory III South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=9780810872899|pages=18–22}}</ref> |
'''Edith Layard Stephens''' (1884-1966) was a [[South Africa]]n [[botanist]], a leading authority on [[algae]] and [[fungi]], particularly edible and poisonous mushrooms.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=A. C.|title=A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa: A Collection of Essays Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa|date=1977|publisher=Royal Society of South Africa|page=249}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Creese|first=Mary R.S. Creese, with contributions by Thomas M.|title=Ladies in the laboratory III South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=9780810872899|pages=18–22}}</ref> |
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==Education== |
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Stephens studied at the South African College (which later became the [[University of Cape Town]]) and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]. She became a lecturer in botany at the University of Cape Town (1911-1940), and honorary reader in plant taxonomy at [[Bolus Herbarium]] in 1952.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334034|page=895|title=Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types|volume=5|accessdate=2 August 2014}}</ref> |
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Stephens studied at the South African College (which later became the [[University of Cape Town]]) and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]. |
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==Career== |
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Stephans became a lecturer in [[botany]] at the University of Cape Town (1911-1940), and honorary reader in plant taxonomy at [[Bolus Herbarium]] in 1952.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334034|page=895|title=Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types|volume=5|accessdate=2 August 2014}}</ref> She made a special study in freshwater algae and fungi, known for her two illustrated booklets on poisonous and edible fungi and also contributed the Pennaeaceae.<ref name=botanical>{{cite book|last1=Gunn|first1=Mary|last2=Codd|first2=L. E.|title=Botanical exploration of southern Africa : introductory volume to the Flora of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora, biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India company until modern times|date=1981|publisher=publ. for the Botanical research institute by A. A. Balkema|location=Cape Town|isbn=0869611291|pages=334-335|accessdate=12 February 2015}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:33, 12 February 2015
Edith Layard Stephens (1884-1966) was a South African botanist, a leading authority on algae and fungi, particularly edible and poisonous mushrooms.[1][2]
Education
Stephens studied at the South African College (which later became the University of Cape Town) and Cambridge.
Career
Stephans became a lecturer in botany at the University of Cape Town (1911-1940), and honorary reader in plant taxonomy at Bolus Herbarium in 1952.[3] She made a special study in freshwater algae and fungi, known for her two illustrated booklets on poisonous and edible fungi and also contributed the Pennaeaceae.[4]
Bibliography
- Notes on the Aquatic Flora of South Africa, Cape Town : University of Cape Town, 1924.
- The Botanical Features of the South Western Cape Province Cape Town : Specialty Press of S.A. Ltd., 1929. (With Robert Harold Compton; Robert Stephen Adamson; Paul Andries van der Byl and Margaret R Levyns, Mrs.)
- Some South African Edible Fungi, Longmans, Green and Co., Cape Town, 1953
- Some South African Poisonous and Inedible Fungi, Longmans, Green and Co., Cape Town, 1953
References
- ^ Brown, A. C. (1977). A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa: A Collection of Essays Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa. Royal Society of South Africa. p. 249.
- ^ Creese, Mary R.S. Creese, with contributions by Thomas M. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 18–22. ISBN 9780810872899.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Vol. 5. p. 895. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ Gunn, Mary; Codd, L. E. (1981). Botanical exploration of southern Africa : introductory volume to the Flora of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora, biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India company until modern times. Cape Town: publ. for the Botanical research institute by A. A. Balkema. pp. 334–335. ISBN 0869611291.
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