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Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 – 1936[1]) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author.[2][3][4]
She was born in Warrington, Lancashire, the daughter of manufacturing chemist John Gallemore and his wife Clara, née Heys. She was educated by a governess and then at a private school in Buxton, Derbyshire.[2]
After studying at Owens College, Manchester, she studied the natural science tripos at Girton College, Cambridge in 1890–1891.[2]
She worked as an assistant in botany at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at the University of Cambridge from 1897 to 1899.[5] She held a two-year Pfeiffer research studentship, and then spent fourteen years carrying out research at the Cambridge Botanical Laboratory. Her research and publications were mostly on abnormal plant growth.[2]
She worked as a garden steward at Girton, part-time from 1912, and then full-time from 1914–1917. She then retired to the Isle of Wight.[2]
Written works
[edit]- Dale, Elizabeth (1900). Scenery and Geology of the Peak of Derbyshire. London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, Limited. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- Dale, Elizabeth (September 1901). "On the Origin, Development, and Morphological Nature of the aërial Tubers in Dioscorea sativa, Linn" (PDF). Annals of Botany. 15 (59): 491–501.
- Dale, Elizabeth (January 1912). "On the cause of 'blindness' in potato tubers". Annals of Botany. 26: 129–131. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Curious Characters". The Royal Society. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Creese, Mary R.S. (2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780585276847. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ↑ Miles, Claire (22 July 2015). "A Hidden Herbarium". Collections in the Landscape: A project blog from Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ↑ "Books Received: The Scenery and Geology of the Peak of Derbyshire". Nature. 63: 80. 22 November 1900. doi:10.1038/063080a0. hdl:2027/inu.39000025036273. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ↑ Richmond, Marsha L. (1997). ""A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914". Isis. 88 (3): 422–455. ISSN 0021-1753.
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