Eleanor Mary Reid
Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards Reid , born as Wynne Edwards, (born November 13, 1860 in Denbigh , † September 28, 1953 in Milford-on-Sea , Hampshire ) was a British paleobotanist . Your botanical author abbreviation is " E. Reid ".
Life
Reid studied from 1886 at Westfield College, University of London with a bachelor's degree in experimental physics in 1891. Then she taught four years mathematics and science at Cheltenham Ladies College.
She had been married to the geologist and palaeobotanist Clement Reid since 1897 , with whom she worked a lot, for example in the study of plant fossils in Tegelen around 1905. Their first joint work appeared in 1907, the last in 1915. Together they demonstrated by thoroughly editing the site that entire extinct flora communities could only be reconstructed from fossil seeds and pollen . In 1913 they both moved to Milford-on-Sea, where Eleanor Reid lived after her husband's death, built up her collection, and where she met many British and foreign paleobotanists.
In 1920 she began working with Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler of Newnham College, Cambridge, which led to two monumental monographs on the flora of the Cenozoic era in Great Britain. Bembridge Flora on the flora of the Oligocene especially on the Isle of Wight , from the holdings of the Natural History Museum (British Museum), and London Clay Flora of the Eocene from 1933, which is considered a classic of paleobotany. With the changes in flora, Reid also followed the climatic history of the Tertiary.
She then did not publish any major works and lived spartan in Milford-on-Sea with Marjorie Chandler, whom she also looked after in the end.
In 1936 she received the Lyell Medal (especially for her two monographs with Chandler) and in 1920 she became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London . In 1919 she received a grant from the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society.
Fonts
- with Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler The London Clay Flora , British Museum 1933
- with Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler The Bembridge Flora , British Museum 1926 (Catalog of caenozoic plants in the Department of Geology, Volume 1)
- with Clement Reid: The Pliocene floras of the Dutch-Prussian border , Mededeelingen van de Rijksopsporing van Delfstoffen, No. 6., Gravenhage , M. Nijhoff 1915 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.57075
- with Clement Reid: The fossil flora of Tegelen-sur-Meuse, near Venloo, in the Province of Limburg , Verh. Kgl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam 1907
literature
- Obituary by WN Edwards, Proc. Geological Society of London 1954
- Cynthia Burek The first female Fellows and the status of woman in the Geological Society of London , in C. Lewis, S. Knell The making of the Geological Society of London , Geological Society Special Publication 317, 2009
Web links
- Biography of Mary Creese, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Eleanor Mary Reid at the IPNI
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reid, Eleanor Mary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reid, Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards; Edwards, Wynne (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British paleobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denbigh |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1953 |
| Place of death | Milford-on-Sea |