Person

Eardley, Constance Margaret (1910 - 1978)

Born
6 September 1910
Fullarton, South Australia, Australia
Died
15 May 1978
Fullarton, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Educator

Summary

Constance Eardley, a systematic botanist, was a Lecturer in Botany, at the University of Adelaide 1933-1971 and Curator of the two university herbaria. She also conducted her own research, in the areas of sphagnum bogs, swamp vegetation, arid zone plants and cytology.

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Chronology

1933 - 1949
Career position - Co-curator of the herbaria at the Waite Institute and the Botany Department, University of Adelaide, South Australia
1943 - 1966
Career position - Lecturer in Systematic Botany, University of Adelaide
1947 - 1951?
Career position - Editor, Australasian herbarium news
1966 - 1971
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Systematic Botany, University of Adelaide

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Archival resources

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

  • Constance Margaret Eardley - Records, 1927 - 1978, MSS 0021; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Articles

Books

  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • George, A.S.; McCusker, A.; and Orchard, A.E., 'A History of Systematic Botany in Australia' in Flora of Australia, Volume 1: Introduction, Orchard, Anthony E. & Thompson, Helen E., ed. (ABRS & CSIRO Publishing, 1999). Details

Journal Articles

  • Eardley, C. M., 'John McConnell Black, M.B.E., A.L.S.', Australasian herbarium news, 10 (1952), 1-5. Details
  • Robertson, R. N.; and Eardley, C. M., 'Obituary: Theodore George Bentley Osborn, DSc, MA, FLS (2.10.1887 - 3.6.1973)', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 97 (4) (1973), 317-320, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41080096. Details

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See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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