Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler
Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler , (born May 18, 1897 in Leamington Spa , Warwickshire , † October 1, 1983 in Swindon , Wiltshire ) was a British paleobotanist . Your botanical author abbreviation is " M.Chandler ".
Life
Chandler was the eldest of six children of a jeweler, went to school in Leamington Spa and studied on a scholarship from 1915 at Newnham College, Cambridge University , where she received top marks in the Tripos science exams in 1919. She later received an MA from Cambridge (1948).
She is known for her collaboration with the paleobotanist Eleanor Mary Reid from 1920, which led to two extensive and classic monographs on the flora of the Tertiary in Great Britain, published in 1926 and 1933. She later lived with Eleanor Reid in Milford-on-Sea until her death in 1953 . From 1933 she continued her investigations into other horizons of the Eocene and Oligocene in Great Britain. It was financed by annual grants from the Natural History Museum. In 1968 she ended her freelance work (which was supported by the museum keepers WN Edwards and EI White). She turned down an offer to become a permanent employee of the museum, as she preferred to live independently in a small village in Dorset . In particular, she investigated the fossil tertiary flora in the clays in southern England (Dorset, Bournemouth).
She is buried in Kempsford ( Gloucester ).
Fonts
- with Mary Eleanor Reid The London Clay Flora , British Museum 1933
- with Mary Eleanor Reid The Bembridge Flora , British Museum 1926 (Catalog of caenozoic plants in the Department of Geology, Volume 1)
- The lower tertiary floras of southern England , 4 volumes, British Museum, 1961–1964 (with 350 pages supplement to the London Clay Flora )
literature
- Obituary by KIM Chesters, Tertiary Research 9, 1988, pp. 1-8
- 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 ( September 1, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Author entry and list of described plant names for Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chandler, Marjorie Elizabeth Jane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British paleobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leamington Spa , Warwickshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1983 |
| Place of death | Swindon , Wiltshire |