Matilda Cullen Knowles

Matilda Cullen Knowles (born January 31, 1864 in Ballymena , County Antrim , † April 27, 1933 in Dublin ) was an Irish botanist . Her research focus was on Irish lichens . Your botanical author abbreviation is " M.Knowles ".

Career

Matilda Cullen Knowles showed great interest in botanical issues from an early age . First, she dealt with the flora in the vicinity of her home and the counties of Antrim and Londonderry . She participated in the Irish Topographical Botany in 1895 and recorded more than 300 species for County Tyrone . After attending science classes at the Royal College of Science for Ireland , she began working in the Botanical Department of the National Museum of Dublin in 1902 . She initially worked there as an assistant to Professor T. Johnson and took over the management of the department after his death. She carried out a large-scale ecological study of marine and marine lichens in the Howth promontory near Dublin. The results were published in 1913 in the Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society . She then worked out and wrote a complete list of Irish lichens from a topological point of view. The lichen occurrence for most of the Irish regions had not been explored until then. Matilda Cullen Knowles worked at the Dublin National Museum until she retired.

Scientific achievement

Matilda Cullen Knowles was considered an authority on lichen. In the context of the topological elaboration of the Irish lichens, she was able to identify around 100 previously unmentioned species as well as five newly discovered species. In 1929 she brought out the work she wrote The Lichens of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academie . In this volume she describes the distribution of over 800 species of lichen. She had been working on a supplement to this book, but it had not been completed by her death. Lilian Porter took over the processing of the material and published it in 1948.

Works

• Michael E. Mitchell, MC Knowles, Lilian Porter: Index of collectors in Knowles' The lichens of Ireland (1929) and Porter's supplement (1948): with a conspectus of lichen recording in the Irish vice-counties to 1950 . Occasional papers 11th Ed. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 53 pp.

• together with Lilian Porter: Lichens of Ireland . Proc. of the Royal Irish Acad. 51 (22). Ed. Hodges, Figgis, 40 pp., 1948

• together with AL Smith: Lichens of the Dublin Foray . Trans. Of the British Mycological Soc. 11 (1-2), 1926

• The Maritime and Marine Lichens of Howth . 14, Issue 6 of Scientific proc. 14, 1913, (6). Ed. Royal Dublin Soc. 143 pp.,

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literature

• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 157.
• National Botanic Gardens of Glasnevin: Matilda Cullen Knowles

supporting documents

1. ↑ Author entry at IPNI

Web links

• Entry in Jstor Plant Science