María Isabel Hylton Scott

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María Isabel Hylton Scott

María Isabel Hylton Scott (born August 16, 1889 in Córdoba , † September 1, 1990 in La Plata ) was an Argentine zoologist , malacologist and university teacher . Her research interest was in the terrestrial snails , of which she first described a family, 47 species and four subspecies .

Life

After completing the teaching diploma in her hometown in 1908, Hylton Scott worked for a year as a teacher at a normal school before she decided to continue her studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . In 1911 she became a lecturer in education and related sciences. From 1914 she worked as an assistant in the zoological laboratory of the La Plata Museum , after which she was appointed laboratory manager. In 1917 she received her doctorate with the dissertation Sobre el desarrollo intraovarial de Fitzroyia lineata on the embryology of the viviparous freshwater fish species Fitzroyia lineata (today Jenynsia lineata ) under the direction of Miguel Fernández and his wife Katy Marcinowsky-Fernández, and was thus the first Doctor en Ciencias Naturales Woman who received a PhD in zoology in Argentina.

During her studies she met her future husband Max Birabén (1893–1977), with whom she worked together over the course of her career. Hylton Scott was from 1919 first as head of the department for practical tasks and from 1933 to 1946 as professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where she taught invertebrate zoology and comparative anatomy . When Juan Perón came to power in 1946, his civil-military liberation revolution had serious consequences for the country's universities. Hylton Scott had to interrupt their university activities and returned to the chair in 1955. In 1954 she and her husband founded the magazine Neotrópica. Notas Zoológicas Sudamericanas , which was published until 1977.

In 1965, Hylton Scott retired at the age of 76, but continued her research throughout her life. At 88, she received a medal to mark the centenary of the La Plata Museum, and over the next seven years she published five new scientific papers. In 1977 she made the Asociación Argentina de Ciencias Naturales an honorary member for her exceptional scientific merits.

Hylton Scott's first descriptions include the genera and species Lilloiconcha tucumana (1963), Aylacostoma chloroticum (1954), Aylacostoma stigmaticum (1954), Bostryx doelloi (1953), Bostryx martinezi (1965), Bostryx costellatus (1971), Bulimulus elatior (1952) , Bulimulus gracilis (1948), Chilina megastoma (1958), Clessinia pagoda (1967), Epiphragmophora hemiclausa (1951), Epiphragmophora jujuyensis (1962), Epiphragmophora proseni (1951), Epiphragmophora puella (1951), Epiphragmophora variegata (1962), Flammulina festiva (1970), Hirtudiscus (1973), Kuschelenia (1951), Pilsbrylia (1952), Pilsbrylia paradoxa (1952), Glabrogyra kuscheli (1957), Radiodiscus pilsbryi (1957), Clessinia paucidenta (1971), Clessinia tridens (1967), Stephadiscus (1981) and Ulpia (1955).

At the age of 100, Hylton Scott transferred her collection to the La Plata Museum.

Trip to Santa Cruz

From February to March 1936, Hylton Scott traveled overland with her husband to Santa Cruz Province to collect research. For this purpose they prepared a vehicle that was to serve as a place to sleep and a laboratory; a bus with a Chevrolet chassis that was 6 meters long, 2.10 meters wide and 2.60 meters high. They left La Plata on board a tanker that took them to Comodoro Rivadavia , including their motorhome . After three days they reached their destination. At the end of March they returned to the La Plata Museum with a significant collection of numerous animal species (a total of 259 samples of 133 different species), another plant species, and several field notes. The results were published the following year in the La Plata Museum Journal and a longer report in five issues of Argentina Austral magazine.

Dedication names

The arachnologist Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão named the two spider species Meriola hyltonae and Geolycosa hyltonscottae in honor of Hylton Scott in 1940 and 1941 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hylton Scott, María Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine zoologist, malacologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1990
Place of death La Plata