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ZA UCT BC275
Title
Edith L Stephens Papers
Date(s)
- 1912-1965 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
ca.800 items
Name of creator
(1884-1966)
Biographical history
Edith Stephens, botanist.
Daughter of Michael and his wife Annie Hoskyn.
Matriculated at the Rustenburg Girls' High School in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in 1901.
Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, University of the Cape of Good
In 1907 she was awarded the 1881 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship by the South African College and entered Newnham College, University of Cambridge, to continue her studies in botany. Stephens returned to South Africa around 1911.
In June 1913 she succeeded W.T. Saxton* as lecturer in botany. She remained in the Department of Botany when the college became the University of Cape Town in 1918, until her retirement in 1940. Thereafter she continued as honorary reader in systematic botany (cryptogams) at the university's Bolus Herbarium until her death in 1966.
Daughter of Michael and his wife Annie Hoskyn.
Matriculated at the Rustenburg Girls' High School in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in 1901.
Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, University of the Cape of Good
In 1907 she was awarded the 1881 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship by the South African College and entered Newnham College, University of Cambridge, to continue her studies in botany. Stephens returned to South Africa around 1911.
In June 1913 she succeeded W.T. Saxton* as lecturer in botany. She remained in the Department of Botany when the college became the University of Cape Town in 1918, until her retirement in 1940. Thereafter she continued as honorary reader in systematic botany (cryptogams) at the university's Bolus Herbarium until her death in 1966.
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Consists mainly of correspondence with botanists, notes and notebooks on fungi and algae, as well as reports on water samples from dams, ponds and marshes.
Items on Peers Cave as well as on Victor and Bertie Peers.
Notes on the restoration of native flora on the Groote Schuur Estate, some flower cards and a number of portraits and other photographs.
Items on Peers Cave as well as on Victor and Bertie Peers.
Notes on the restoration of native flora on the Groote Schuur Estate, some flower cards and a number of portraits and other photographs.
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- English
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2013
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- English