Margaret Williamson Rea

Margaret Williamson Rea
Born1875
Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
Died17 April 1954

Margaret Williamson Rea (1875 – 17 April 1954) was an Irish botanist.

Life

Margaret Williamson Rea was born in Belfast in 1875, the eldest daughter of Robert and Eleanor Rea.[1] She studied at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), graduating with a B.Sc. in 1919, followed by an M.Sc. in 1921.[2][3][4][5] She published a number of papers in the New Phytologist and Protoplasma, two co-authored with Prof. James Small; another was based on her masters thesis, Stomata and Hydathodes in Campanula rotundifolia L., and their Relations to Environment, and in it she acknowledges Professor R. H. Yapp, "at whose suggestion the work was commenced".[a][7][8] She also co-authored at least one paper with Margarita D. Stelfox.[9] She specialised in the collection and description of Mycetozoa, recording a number of her records in the Irish Naturalists' Journal. Some specimens collected by Rea are held in the National University of Ireland, Galway.[10] Others form part of the Stelfox Collection in the herbarium of the Ulster Museum.[11]

She joined the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club in 1907[b] and in 1918/1919, when her address was given as Salem House, Sydenham, Belfast, was one of its two secretaries, alongside Dr. (later Professor) J. K. Charlesworth of QUB.[12] In the 1924 membership list of the British Mycological Society, which she joined in 1920, her address was again given as Salem House.[13] She died suddenly in hospital, on 17 April 1954.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Yapp was Chair of Botany at QUB from 1914 to 1919.[6]
  2. ^ Lily Curry Rea (her younger sister?), also of Salem House, joined in 1916.

References

  1. ^ a b "Rea—April 17, 1954". Northern Whig. Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland. 23 April 1954. REA—April 17, 1954 (suddenly), at Hospital. Margaret Williamson Rea, M.Sc. eldest daughter of the late Robert and Eleanor Rea, of Salem House, Sydenham, Belfast...
  2. ^ Praeger, Robert Lloyd (1949). Some Irish Naturalists: A Biographical Note-book. Dundalk: W.Tempest, Dundalgan Press. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. p. 1081. ISBN 9781135963439.
  4. ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botantists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers (Revised and completely updated ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781466573871.
  5. ^ Ainsworth, Geoffrey C. (1996). Brief Biographies of British Mycologists. Stourbridge, West Midlands: British Mycological Society. p. 140. ISBN 0952770407.
  6. ^ Weiss, F. E. (1929). "Obituary Notice: Richard Henry Yapp, 1871-1929". Journal of Ecology. 17 (2): 405–408. ISSN 0022-0477. JSTOR 2256052.
  7. ^ Rea, M.W. (1921). Stomata and Hydathodes in Campanula rotundifolia L., and their Relations to Environment (M.Sc.). Queen's University Belfast.
  8. ^ Rea, Margaret W. (1921). "Stomata and Hydathodes in Campanula rotundifolia L., and their Relation to Environment". The New Phytologist. 20 (2): 56–72. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1921.tb05772.x. ISSN 0028-646X. JSTOR 2427969.
  9. ^ Rea, Margaret W.; Stelfox, Margarita D. (1917). "Some Records for Irish Mycetozoa". The Irish Naturalist. 26 (4): 57–65. ISSN 2009-2598. JSTOR 25524605.
  10. ^ "Search results, herbarium specimens collected by Margaret Williamson Rea". herbariaunited.org. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  11. ^ Hackney, Paul (1973). "Additional Notes on the Herbarium of the Ulster Museum". The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 17 (9): 318. ISSN 0021-1311. JSTOR 25537631.
  12. ^ "General Committee". Annual Reports and Proceedings. Belfast Naturalists' Field Club: 3 & 39. 1919.
  13. ^ "Membership List". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 9: 254. 1924. Retrieved 7 November 2020.