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.
Details
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
Related entries
Archival resources
Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
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
Articles
- Cook, Andrew, 'Scientific Pioneer Ahead of Her Time', Lumen, 2013 (Winter) (2013), http://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/issues/63001/news63102.html. Details
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21393679. Details
- Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: C. M. Eardley 1910 - 1978, Friends of the Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EARDLEY-Constance-M-.pdf. Details
- 'Eardley, Constance M', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-462750. Details
See also
- Fagg, Murray, 'Eardley, Constance M. (1910 - 1978)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/eardley-constance.html. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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