Mary Johnstone Lynn | |
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Born | 9 January 1891 |
Died | after 1959 Carrickfergus |
Nationality | Irish |
Other names | M. J. Lynn |
Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Known for | plant ecology of tidal zones, cell biology, algology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Mary Johnston(e) Lynn (9 January 1891 – died after 1959) was an Irish botanist known for her phyto-ecological studies in Northern Ireland.
Lynn was born at Albany Cottage, Carrickfergus to Henry Lynn and Mary Johnstone Rodgers. She attended Queens University, Belfast for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a doctorate in 1937. [1] [2]
Lynn taught at Queens University, Belfast. [2] [3] In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a senior demonstrator in the botany department. [4] She was an active member of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club [5] and the Botanical Society of Northern Ireland, [6] and studied plant cell biology, [7] including the effect of carbon dioxide and rotation on the curvature of sunflower stems. [8] She published articles in The Irish Naturalists' Journal [9] [10] and The New Phytologist. [4]
In 1934 she was the first to record the alga C. peregrina in Ireland; [11] she also studied the scarcity of Zostera marina in Strangford Lough. [12] James Small thanked her for help in reading the proofs of his A Textbook of Botany (1937). [13] In 1947, she gave a lecture on seaweeds to the Belfast Naturalists Field Club. [14] In 1949, she described "a rare form of Ascophyllum nodosum" she found at Larne Lough. [15] She was publishing her research as late as 1960, when she updated a coastal survey of Larne Lough, [16] and reported on the appearance of Datura stramonium in Ireland.
Algae specimens collected by Lynn were part of the Algal Herbarium at Queens University, Belfast. [17]
Mary Johnstone Lynn | |
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Born | 9 January 1891 |
Died | after 1959 Carrickfergus |
Nationality | Irish |
Other names | M. J. Lynn |
Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Known for | plant ecology of tidal zones, cell biology, algology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Mary Johnston(e) Lynn (9 January 1891 – died after 1959) was an Irish botanist known for her phyto-ecological studies in Northern Ireland.
Lynn was born at Albany Cottage, Carrickfergus to Henry Lynn and Mary Johnstone Rodgers. She attended Queens University, Belfast for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a doctorate in 1937. [1] [2]
Lynn taught at Queens University, Belfast. [2] [3] In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a senior demonstrator in the botany department. [4] She was an active member of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club [5] and the Botanical Society of Northern Ireland, [6] and studied plant cell biology, [7] including the effect of carbon dioxide and rotation on the curvature of sunflower stems. [8] She published articles in The Irish Naturalists' Journal [9] [10] and The New Phytologist. [4]
In 1934 she was the first to record the alga C. peregrina in Ireland; [11] she also studied the scarcity of Zostera marina in Strangford Lough. [12] James Small thanked her for help in reading the proofs of his A Textbook of Botany (1937). [13] In 1947, she gave a lecture on seaweeds to the Belfast Naturalists Field Club. [14] In 1949, she described "a rare form of Ascophyllum nodosum" she found at Larne Lough. [15] She was publishing her research as late as 1960, when she updated a coastal survey of Larne Lough, [16] and reported on the appearance of Datura stramonium in Ireland.
Algae specimens collected by Lynn were part of the Algal Herbarium at Queens University, Belfast. [17]