Mary Johnstone Lynn
Mary Johnstone Lynn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 January 1891 |
| Died | after 1959 Carrickfergus |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Other names | M. J. Lynn |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Known for | plant ecology of tidal zones, cell biology, algology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
Mary Johnston(e) Lynn (9 January 1891 – died after 1959) was an Irish botanist known for her phyto-ecological studies in Northern Ireland.
Early life and education
Lynn was born at Albany Cottage, Carrickfergus to Henry Lynn and Mary Johnstone Rodgers. She attended Queens University, Belfast for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a doctorate in 1937.[1][2]
Career
Lynn taught at Queens University, Belfast.[2][3] In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a senior demonstrator in the botany department.[4] She was an active member of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club[5] and the Botanical Society of Northern Ireland,[6] and studied plant cell biology,[7] including the effect of carbon dioxide and rotation on the curvature of sunflower stems.[8] She published articles in The Irish Naturalists' Journal[9][10] and The New Phytologist.[4]
In 1934 she was the first to record the alga C. peregrina in Ireland;[11] she also studied the scarcity of Zostera marina in Strangford Lough.[12] James Small thanked her for help in reading the proofs of his A Textbook of Botany (1937).[13] In 1947, she gave a lecture on seaweeds to the Belfast Naturalists Field Club.[14] In 1949, she described "a rare form of Ascophyllum nodosum" she found at Larne Lough.[15] She was publishing her research as late as 1960, when she updated a coastal survey of Larne Lough,[16] and reported on the appearance of Datura stramonium in Ireland.
Algae specimens collected by Lynn were part of the Algal Herbarium at Queens University, Belfast.[17]
References
- ^ Ray Desmond, LYNN, Mary Johnstone (1891–1930s) in Dictionary of British And Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, CRC Press, Sep 11, 2002
- ^ a b Praeger, R. Lloyd. "Some Irish Naturalists: A Biographical Note-book". National Botanic Gardens of Ireland. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ JSTOR 2427930.
- ^ Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (1913–1914). "Report of the Fiftieth Anniversary Subcommittee". Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club. Robarts - University of Toronto. Belfast.
- JSTOR 25532109.
- ISBN 978-3-7091-5451-9.
- ^ Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society (1923). Proceedings and Report of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. London Natural History Museum Library.
- JSTOR 25532175.
- JSTOR 25532686.
- JSTOR 25532691.
- JSTOR 25532620.
- ^ Small, James (1937). A textbook of botany for medical, pharmaceutical and other students. J. & A. Churchill. pp. viii.
- JSTOR 25533536.
- JSTOR 25533757.
- JSTOR 25534711.
- JSTOR 25537152.
External links
- “Handwriting sample: Mary J. Lynn” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed March 22, 2020.