Lilian Suzette Gibbs
Lilian Suzette Gibbs (born September 10, 1870 in London , † January 30, 1925 in Santa Cruz , Tenerife ) was a British botanist . She was considered a professional authority in the field of mountain vegetation. Gibbs was also known for her extensive research trips, in the context of which she became the first woman to climb Mount Kinabalu in 1910 . Your botanical author abbreviation is " Gibbs ".
Life
Even as a young girl, Lilian Suzette Gibbs was interested in the flora of the mountains and built collections of plants from the Swiss and Austrian mountains. Lilian Suzette Gibbs attended Swanley Horticultural College from 1899 to 1901 . She then took up studies in the Department of Biology at the Royal College of Science in Kensington, London in 1901 . She subsequently became a research student with John Bretland Farmer .
Gibbs was employed by the Natural History Museum in London, but spent a great deal of her working life on botanical excursions to various regions of the world.
In 1905 Gibbs went on an excursion to South Africa with the British Association. The material collected here formed the basis for the journal Contributions to the Botany of Southern Rhodesia, which she wrote . She carried out histological examinations of the species newly found in the context of the expedition and published the results. In several research trips she examined the mountain flora of the Malay Archipelago . In 1907 she stayed for three months in the Mount Tomanivi region of the Fiji Islands , explored Mount Kinabalu in Borneo in 1910 and also examined the vegetation of the Arfak Mountains in New Guinea in 1913 . The latter expedition served to gain more detailed information on questions of plant distribution that had arisen during the previous expeditions. Gibbs worked out that the plants spread from New Guinea towards Polynesia and Australia . In between, she worked in Iceland in 1912, collecting plant material. Her expedition ended with a six-month stay in Tasmania . She used this to investigate the plant formations of the plateaus more closely. She published her research results in several specialist journals.
Appreciation
Lilian Suzette Gibbs was able to contribute essential knowledge of the mountain flora of the Malay Archipelago. She was involved in the first description of more than 100 species . In 1905 she was accepted into the Linnean Society , in 1910 in the Royal Microscopical Society and in 1919 in the Royal Geographical Society . Gibbs was awarded the Huxley Medal and a research award from the Royal College of Science in 1910 . Rendle honored her by naming the plant genus Gibbsia (Urticaceae) after her.
literature
- Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 116
- Short résumé of Lilian Suzette Gibbs
- Brief biography of Lilian Suzette Gibbs at Jstor Plant Science
Web links
- Entry Lilian Suzette Gibbs at Jstor Plant Science
- Entry Lilian Suzette Gibbs at IPNI
- View of the book A contribution to the phytogeography and flora of the Arfak mountains by Lilian Suzette Gibbs at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gibbs, Lilian Suzette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1925 |
| Place of death | Santa Cruz , Tenerife |