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Dame Maria Ogilvie Gordon obtained a Ph.D. from Munich, while Lilian Veley acquired a D.Sc. from Dublin. Gordon’s geology altered our understanding of the origins of the Dolomites. She still found time to fight for women’s causes. Veley advanced knowledge of the microbiology of food and drinks. She was Secretary of the Ashmolean Natural History Society (Oxford). The career of Laura Embleton, an entomologist and one of the first female graduates of the University of Wales, stuttered because she had no family wealth and finally the supply of paid jobs dried up. Later, she lived as Alick Embleton among lesbian friends campaigning for women’s rights.
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Heriot-Watt College dates from 1855, though its origins lie in the Edinburgh Mechanics Institute started in 1821.
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Poulton was in 1893 appointed Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford. He was President of the Linnean Society from 1912 to 1916.
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Archives of Somerville College, Oxford, SC/AO/RG/SF/RI-025.
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Also note, 1897, A bacterium in rum, Society of the Chemical Industry Journal, 16, 626; 1897, A bacterium in strong spirit, Nature 56, 197; and 1900, The micro-organism in faulty rum, Nature 61, 468–469.
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Archives of the Linnean Society.
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McKenzie was the first professor appointed by a fully chartered UK university. Her subject was education.
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Howes was a member of the Essex Feld Club.
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Archives and website of Sutton High School, Surrey.
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Pers. Comm. John Maris, who has extensively investigated his family tree, which includes Embletons.
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Ayres, P. (2020). Approved by Mrs Farquharson?. In: Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46600-8_6
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