Elizabeth Dale
British paleobotanist and botanist
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Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 – 1936[1]) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author.[2][3][4]
She was born on 27 March 1868 in Warrington, Lancashire, the daughter of manufacturing chemist John Gallemore and his wife Clara, née Heys. She was educated by a governess and then at a private school in Buxton, Derbyshire.[2]
After studying at Owens College, Manchester, she studied the natural science tripos at Girton College, Cambridge in 1890–1891.[2]
She worked as an assistant in botany at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at the University of Cambridge from 1897 to 1899.[5] She held a two-year Pfeiffer research studentship, and then spent fourteen years carrying out research at the Cambridge Botanical Laboratory. Her research and publications were mostly on abnormal plant growth.[2]
She worked as a garden steward at Girton, part time from 1912, and then full-time from 1914–1917. She then retired to the Isle of Wight.[2]
Written works
- Dale, Elizabeth (1900). Scenery and Geology of the Peak of Derbyshire. London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, Limited. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- Dale, Elizabeth (September 1901). "On the Origin, Development, and Morphological Nature of the aërial Tubers in Dioscorea sativa, Linn" (PDF). Annals of Botany. 15 (59): 491–501.
- Dale, Elizabeth (January 1912). "On the cause of 'blindness' in potato tubers". Annals of Botany. 26: 129–131. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
