Person
Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886 - 1945)
- Born
- 21 November 1886
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 21 June 1945
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Zoologist
Summary
Gwynneth Buchanan became a Lecturer in 1921 and a Senior Lecturer in 1925 in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. Her much used text "Elements of Animal Morphology" was published in 1921. Prior to this she tutored biology at the secondary school and tertiary levels
Details
Chronology
- 1908
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1909
- Career position - Junior Demonstrator in Biology, University of Melbourne
- 1910
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1910 - 1913
- Career position - Tutor in Biology at Queen's College, University of Melbourne
- 1910 - 1920
- Career position - Senior Biology Mistress, Presbyterian Ladies' College
- 1913 - 1914
- Career position - Research on the embryology of Australian marsupials at University College, London
- 1914 - 1916
- Career position - Public Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology
- c. 1914 - c. 1916
- Career position - Tutor in Biology at Queen's, Ormond and Trinity colleges, University of Melbourne
- 1915
- Career position - Government scholarship - for inquiry into human embryology
- 1916
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
- 1919 - 1922
- Career position - Public Examiner in Animal Morphology and Physiology
- 1920
- Career position - Lecturer-in-charge of Biology, University of Western Australia
- 1921 - 1924
- Career position - Lecturer in Zoology, University of Melbourne
- 1922
- Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
- 1925 - 1944
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Melbourne
- 1926
- Career position - Acting Head of Department, University of Melbourne
- 1935
- Career position - Founding member of the McCoy Society for Research and Investigation
- 1937 - 1938
- Career event - Leader, excursion to King Island, McCoy Society for Research and Investigation
Related entries
Archival resources
University College Archives, University of Melbourne
- Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan - Records; University College Archives, University of Melbourne. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Close, Cecily, 'Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886-1945), zoologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 471-472. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070473b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Dr. Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan', Australian Journal of Science, 8 (2-3) (1945), 73. Details
- Buchanan, Gwynneth, 'The Melbourne University Science Club, 1888-1937', The Science Review (1937), 16-21. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24205056. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93574980. Details
- 'Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886-1945)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462800. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 12 February 2018
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