Grace Wigglesworth (1877 – aft. 1950) was an English palaeobotanist who published on early land plants, especially bryophytes. She spent over thirty years working as a curator at the Manchester Museum, where she cared for and published for botanical collections in the Herbarium.
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Education and early career
editEducated at Manchester High School, she studied at Owens College, gaining a BSc in 1903 and an MSc in palaeobotany in 1906.[1] She was one of several women supported in their studies by Manchester’s botany professor, William Henry Lang.[2]
Wigglesworth was an honorary research fellow at the University until 1907, during which time she published several papers on early land plants. From 1907 – 1910 she had a stint as botany lecturer at the London Day Training College.
Manchester Museum
editFrom 1910 to 1944 she was Assistant Keeper at the Manchester Museum, where she fostered links between the botany, geology and zoology departments, also giving public lectures and demonstrations on palaeobotany, including lectures about the history of botany at the University of Manchester in 1926 and 1927.[3][4]
At the Museum, she continued to publish. She especially worked with the collections donated to the Museum, including Lang's and those of Leopold Hartley Grindon James Cosmo Melvill, which she received into the museum.[1] Her papers included the description of new species, such as Sphaerocarpos drewei.
She retired in 1944, her retirement being delayed a year after the age limit because of World War II,[4] and she continued helping at the Herbarium in the 1950s after her retirement.[3]
Select publications
edit- 'Notes on the Rhizome of Matonia pectina, R. Br,' The New Phytologist 1:7 (1902) 157–160[6]
- 'The cotyledons of Gingko biloba and Cycas revoluta,' Annals of Botany 17:68 (1903), 789–791[7]
- 'Notes on Papillae in the Epidermoidal Layer of the Calami,' Annals of Botany 18:72 (1904) 645–648[8]
- 'The Young Sporophytes of Lycopodium complanatum and Lycompodium clavatum,' Annals of Botany xxi (1907) 211–234[9]
- 'A new Californian species of sphaerocarpus, together with an annotated list of the specimens of sphaerocarpus in the Manchester museum,' Publications in Botany 16:3
- 'South African Species of Riella, including an account of the developmental stages of three of the species,' Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 51 (1937) 309–332[10]
References
edit- ^ a b "Miss Grace Wigglesworth". Nature. 154 (3903): 234–234. 1944-08-01. doi:10.1038/154234b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ Burek, Cynthia V.; Higgs, Bettie; London, Geological Society of (2007). The Role of Women in the History of Geology. Geological Society of London. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-86239-227-4.
- ^ a b "Assorted papers of Grace Wigglesworth, Assistant Keeper (curator), 1910-1944". Archives Hub.
- ^ a b Bowden, A. J.; Burek, Cynthia V.; Wilding, R. (2005). History of Palaeobotany: Selected Essays. Geological Society of London. ISBN 978-1-86239-174-1.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Wigglesw.
- ^ Wigglesworth, Grace (1902). "Notes on the Rhizome of Matonia pectina, R. Br". The New Phytologist. 1 (7): 157–160. ISSN 0028-646X.
- ^ Wigglesworth, Grace (1903). "The Cotyledons of Ginkgo Biloba and Cycas Revoluta". Annals of Botany. 17 (68): 789–791. ISSN 0305-7364.
- ^ WIGGLESWORTH, GRACE (1904). "THE PAPILLAE IN THE EPIDERMOIDAL LAYER OF THE CALAMI TEAN ROOT". Annals of Botany. os-18 (4): 645–648. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a088981. ISSN 1095-8290.
- ^ Wigglesworth, Grace (1907). "The young Sporophytes of Lycopodium complanatum and Lycopodium clavatum". Annals of Botany. 21 (82): 211–234. ISSN 0305-7364.
- ^ Wigglesworth, Grace (1937). "South African species of Riella, including an account of the developmental stages of three of the species". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany. 51 (339): 309–332. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1937.tb01910.x.
External links
edit- Wigglesworth, Grace at International Plant Names Index