Alice Embleton

Education and early life

Embleton was born in

She used the £150 scholarship to work at the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, Cambridge, followed by a further period of study at the Sorbonne in Paris.^[3] She is considered the second woman to publish on the topic of copepodology, after Edith Mary Pratt.^[4]

In 1903, she was appointed honorary zoologist to the

She was one of the first woman to speak at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London.^[6] Her paper, delivered on 4 June 1903, was entitled: "Anatomy and Development of a Hymeropterous Parasite of a Scaly Insect (Lecanium Hemisphoericum)".^[7] Among with fifteen other women, she was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1905.^[8] The Linnean Society archives hold Embleton's correspondence with the Society, of which she remained a Fellow until 1917.^[9]

In 1906 she co-published the papers, "On the synapsis in amphibia"^[10] and "On the origin of the sertoli".^[11]

In later life she conducted cancer research at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington.^[12]

Personal and non-academic life

Embleton was connected with a number of noted

The four women set up the private 'Foosack League' between themselves, the membership of which was restricted to women and suffragists.[14] Evidence suggests the Foosack League was a lesbian secret society.^[15] The Women's Library holds correspondence between the women during World War I, in which Embleton is referred to as 'Alick', and Wray as 'Mr Wary'.^[16] In her later years, Embleton lived with Wray at The Elms in Saxmundham in Suffolk.

See also

• Timeline of women in science

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