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Eardley, Constance Margaret (Con) (1910-1978)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Constance Margaret (Con)
Last name
Eardley
Initials
C.M.(C.)
Life Dates
1910 - 1978
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
AD (main), ADU, ADW, K
Countries
Australasia: New Zealand, Australia
Associate(s)
Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979) (correspondent)
Eardley, C.M. (1910-1978) (synonym)
Eardley, C.M. (1910-1978) (synonym)
Biography
Australian botanist at the University of Adelaide. Constance Eardley was born in Fullarton, South Australia, on 6 September 1910. She held a joint appointment in the Botany Department of the University of Adelaide and the Waite Institute, as curator of the herbaria from 1933-1949. She held a full-time appointment at the university from 1950, where she became a senior lecturer in 1966. She retired in 1971.
Among Eardley's works was a catalogue of plants from the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition . In 1943 she carried out work on the South Australian sphagnum bogs and swamp vegetation before shifting her focus to arid zone plants and cytology. Eardley was known as an inspirational teacher who trained a generation of new taxonomists in Adelaide. Her herbarium is held at Adelaide University and she is commemorated in the Constance Eardley Reserve on Quondong Station, South Australia and in the plant Atriplex eardleyae Aellen.
Sources:
N. Hall, 1984, Botanists of the Acacias: 17
Lange et al, 1978, Newsletter of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, 15: 5-7.
Among Eardley's works was a catalogue of plants from the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition . In 1943 she carried out work on the South Australian sphagnum bogs and swamp vegetation before shifting her focus to arid zone plants and cytology. Eardley was known as an inspirational teacher who trained a generation of new taxonomists in Adelaide. Her herbarium is held at Adelaide University and she is commemorated in the Constance Eardley Reserve on Quondong Station, South Australia and in the plant Atriplex eardleyae Aellen.
Sources:
N. Hall, 1984, Botanists of the Acacias: 17
Lange et al, 1978, Newsletter of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, 15: 5-7.
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Constance Margaret (Con)
Last name
Eardley
Initials
C.M.(C.)
Life Dates
1910 - 1978
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
AD (main), ADU, ADW, K
Countries
Australasia: New Zealand, Australia
Associate(s)
Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979) (correspondent)
Eardley, C.M. (1910-1978) (synonym)
Eardley, C.M. (1910-1978) (synonym)
Biography
Australian botanist at the University of Adelaide. Constance Eardley was born in Fullarton, South Australia, on 6 September 1910. She held a joint appointment in the Botany Department of the University of Adelaide and the Waite Institute, as curator of the herbaria from 1933-1949. She held a full-time appointment at the university from 1950, where she became a senior lecturer in 1966. She retired in 1971.
Among Eardley's works was a catalogue of plants from the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition . In 1943 she carried out work on the South Australian sphagnum bogs and swamp vegetation before shifting her focus to arid zone plants and cytology. Eardley was known as an inspirational teacher who trained a generation of new taxonomists in Adelaide. Her herbarium is held at Adelaide University and she is commemorated in the Constance Eardley Reserve on Quondong Station, South Australia and in the plant Atriplex eardleyae Aellen.
Sources:
N. Hall, 1984, Botanists of the Acacias: 17
Lange et al, 1978, Newsletter of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, 15: 5-7.
Among Eardley's works was a catalogue of plants from the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition . In 1943 she carried out work on the South Australian sphagnum bogs and swamp vegetation before shifting her focus to arid zone plants and cytology. Eardley was known as an inspirational teacher who trained a generation of new taxonomists in Adelaide. Her herbarium is held at Adelaide University and she is commemorated in the Constance Eardley Reserve on Quondong Station, South Australia and in the plant Atriplex eardleyae Aellen.
Sources:
N. Hall, 1984, Botanists of the Acacias: 17
Lange et al, 1978, Newsletter of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, 15: 5-7.
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