Augusta Vera Duthie
Augusta Vera Duthie (18 July 1881– 8 August 1963) was a South African botanist with particular interest in the Western Cape.
Early life and education
One of five children, she was born to Archibald Hamilton and Augusta Vera Duthie and in Knysna, South Africa.[1] She obtained a B.A. from Huguenot College in 1901, a M.A. from South African College in 1910, and a D.Sc. from University of South Africa in 1929.[2]
Academic career
She was appointed as botany lecturer at Victoria College, now University of Stellenbosch in 1902. In 1912, she visited Cambridge University and worked with Albert Charles Seward. In 1929, she completed flora of the Stellenbosch Flats, an alluvial area surrounding the college. After her retirement 1939, she returned to manage her family farm Belvidere where she died in 1963.[1]
Eponyms
- Duthieastrum
- Duthie's golden mole Chlorotalpa duthieae Broom
- Impatiens duthieae
- Ischyrolepis duthieae (Pillans) H. P. Linder
- Ornithogalum duthiae
- Psilocaulon duthieae
- Romulea duthieae
- Ruschia duthiae
- Stomatium duthieae
Major Works
Vegetation and Flora of the Stellenbosch Flats, 1929
Reference List
- 1 2 Creese, Mary R.S.; Creese, Thomas M. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 14–17. ISBN 9780810872899.
- ↑ Gunn, Mary; Codd, L.E.W. (1981). Botanical Exploration Southern Africa. CRC Press. p. 142.
- ↑ IPNI. A.V.Duthie.
External links
- Biography of Augusta Vera Duthie at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science