Kate Bertram

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Bertram's 1942 report included the cichlids of Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi). This collection is in Toronto Zoo.

Cicely Kate Bertam (née Ricardo) (8 July 1912 – 6 July 1999) was a British academic specialising in fish. Part of the 1930s "Cambridge school" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa.

In 1970 Bertram became the second ever President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, a position she held until 1979. Bertram served as a Justice of the Peace in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, for twenty years.

[edit] Publications

Ricardo, C.K. n.d. (1939). Report on the Fish and Fisheries of Lake Rukwa in Tanganyika Territory and the Bangweulu Region in Northern Rhodesia. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Bertram, C.K., Borley, H.J.H. & Trewavas, E. (1942). Report on the Fish and Fisheries of Lake Nyasa. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies. Known as the 1939 Survey.
C. Kate Bertram (1989). Lucy Cavendish College: A history of the early years.
Bertram, C. Kate & Janet Trant (1991). Ion Trant. (Ed). Letters from the Swamps. Graffham, Sussex: Dr C.K. Bertram.

[edit] See also

Lake Malawi

[edit] References

Peter N B Jackson. "Obituary: Kate Bertram" Ichthos 62, December 1999. ISSN 1011-7490. Retrieved 9 May 2006.
"Death Reported: Cicely Kate Ricardo Bertram" Sirenews 33, April 2000. Retrieved 9 May 2000.