Edith Philip Smith
Edith Philip Smith FRSE | |
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Born | Stirling, Scotland | 9 March 1897
Died | 17 May 1976 | (aged 79)
Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford University of Edinburgh |
Known for | botanist, academic, teacher |
Edith Philip Smith FLS FRSE (9 March 1897 – 17 May 1976) was a botanist and teacher who became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Head of the Botany Department at Queen's College, Dundee (now the University of Dundee).
Career
She was one of the first female graduates to receive a degree at the
Over the next decade Smith published various botanical papers, a textbook and an ecological report of a 1933 expedition to
In 1932 she started the Dundee
She was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1941 after presenting a thesis called
Family
Edith Philip Smith was born in Stirling on 9 March 1897, the eldest child of Edith Abbot Philip and James Cruickshank Smith CBE LittD LLD.[3][15] At that time J.C.Smith was Rector of Stirling High School, but for most of his career he was a senior chief inspector of schools as well as a literary scholar.[16] The family moved away from Stirling in 1899 and lived in Glasgow, Perth and Fife. Smith's obituary described his wife as "sister of Lady Beveridge".[16] Lady Beveridge was the name after her second marriage of Jessie (aka Janet) Thomson Mair née Philip.[17] One of her children was anthropologist Lucy Philip Mair, a first cousin of Edith Philip Smith. Her mother and aunt were amongst the children of a well-educated Dundee joiner and builder running a successful business.[17][15]
One of Edith's three sisters, Amy Moir Philip Pantin née Smith, trained as a zoologist, then became a doctor and member of the Medical Women's Federation.[18] She was married to the zoologist Carl Pantin.[19]
Bibliography
- 1922 Comparative Studies on Respiration XXII. The Effect of Lactic Acid on the Respiration of Wheat, American Journal of Botany, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp307-310
- 1922 A Note on Conjugation in Zygnema, Annals of Botany
- 1924 The Effect of General Anaesthetics on the Respiration of Cereals. I. Carbon Dioxide Production, Annals of Botany
- 1927 The origin of adventitious growths in coleus, Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- 1927 The anatomy and propagation of Clematis, Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- 1928 A Comparative Study of the Stem Structure of the Genus Clematis, with special reference to Anatomical Changes induced by Vegetative Propagation, Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- 1930 Flower colours as natural indicators, Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- 1932 Experimental biology, Oxford
- 1933 The calibration of flower colour indicators, Protoplasma
- 1934 The Vegetation of South Rona, The Scottish Naturalist, no.210
Not a complete list.
References
- ^ First Oxford Women Graduates - Historic Ceremony, The Times, 15 Oct 1920, p7
- ^ (Following the Oxford custom a BA not a BSc.) University Intelligence, The Times, 28 June 1920, p10
- ^ a b c University of Edinburgh Journal, Volume 27, p325
- ^ The Scotsman, 28 June 1926
- ^ Aberdeen Journal, 3 September 1934, p6
- ^ Local newspapers from the late 1920s onward, searchable in archives like britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
- ^ Dundee Courier, 20 January 1938 p7
- ^ Dundee Courier, 9 October 1943
- ^ Dundee Evening Telegraph 24 May 1932 p4
- ^ Dundee Courier, 16 April 1936
- ^ The Scotsman, 13 December 1941, p6
- ^ Scotsman 2 December 1941
- ^ Archives Hub: Edith Philip Smith, F.R.S.E., Lecturer in Botany
- ^ "UR-SF 12 Edith Philip Smith, F.R.S.E., Lecturer in Botany, 1926-1960". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b Birth and census records
- ^ a b Death of Eminent Scots Scholar, The Scotsman, 8 Nov 1946 p4
- ^ a b John Davis, ‘Mair, Lucy Philip (1901–1986)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 2004
- ^ Archives: Medical Women's Federation
- ^ James Beament, ‘Pantin, Carl Frederick Abel (1899–1967)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 2004