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Kate Violet Edgerley (21 February 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a New Zealand botanist and teacher.
Kate Violet Edgerley (21 February 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a New Zealand botanist and teacher.
Life
Born in Auckland in 1887, Kate was the granddaughter of John Edgerley, one of New Zealand's first botanists. Having won first prize for science atAuckland Grammar School
Auckland Grammar School (often simplified to Auckland Grammar, or Grammar), established in 1869, is a State school, state, Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding secondary school for Single-sex education, boys in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
, Kate continued to study. In 1911, she received a Masters with first class Honours in botany from Auckland University College
The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loca ...
, supervised by Algernon Thomas
Sir Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas (3 June 1857 – 28 December 1937) was a New Zealand university professor, geologist, biologist and educationalist. He was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England in 1857 and died in Auckland, New Zealand in ...
. Her thesis was on the reproductive organs of Lycopodium mosses, and was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1914.
Edgerley taught at Auckland Girls' Grammar School
Auckland Girls' Grammar School (AGGS) is a New Zealand secondary school for girls located in Newton, New Zealand, Newton, Auckland. Established in 1878 as Auckland Girls' High School, it is one of the oldest secondary institutions in the countr ...
from 1912 until her sudden death in 1939. She was the first President of the Botany Club, which superseded the Rambling Club in 1919. In 1935, Edgerley was elected the first woman President of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association.
Staff and students of the school presented to the school the two volumes of T.F. Cheeseman’s Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora (1914) as a memorial to Edgerley. At the school prize giving, the Kate Edgerley Memorial Prize was awarded first for botany and then later for natural sciences.
In 2017, Edgerley was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities. These fundings (i.e., Marsden grants and research fe ...
's "150 women in 150 words
The "150 women in 150 words" project was undertaken by the Royal Society Te Apārangi and published during their 150th anniversary celebrations in 2017. The aim of the project was "celebrating women's contributions to expanding knowledge in New Z ...
", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.
Publications
"The prothallia of three New Zealand lycopods" Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 47:94–111 (1914)References
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