Person

Lee, Alma Theodora (1912 - 1990)

Born
12 April 1912
New South Wales, Australia
Died
20 October 1990
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Botanist
Alternative Names
  • Melvaine, Alma (maiden name)

Summary

Alma Lee was a botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales from 1938. Her research focused on the families Lomandraceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Fabaceae, in which family she concentrated on the genera Swainsona, Bossiaea, Psoralea, Crotalaria, Platylobium, Templetonia, Hovea, and Aenictphyton. She sought to understand species and subspecies in relation to population variability, hybridism, and environmental and evolutionary concepts. In this she influenced the development of Australian botanical taxonomic studies more broadly. Lee was senior author of the second part of the general treatment of Fabaceae in the "Flora of New South Wales" series. The plant genus Almaleea (Fabaceae) was named in her honour.

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Chronology

1935
Education - Bachelor of Science (Botany)
1938 - 1947?
Career position - Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1963? - 1982
Career position - Botanist (part-time), National Herbarium of New South Wales
1982 - 1986
Career position - Honorary Research Associate, National Herbarium of New South Wales

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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

Journal Articles

  • Briggs, Barbara, 'Alma Theodora Lee (1912-1990)', Telopea, 4 (2) (1991), 141-3. Details
  • Lee, Alma, 'Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979', Telopea, 2 (1) (1980), 1-9. Details

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See also

Rebecca Rigby and Helen Cohn

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