Margaret Trevena Martin Explained

Margaret Trevana Martin (1905-2000) was a British botanist and phycologist noted for identifying several species of South African Rhodophyceae.[1]

Career

She worked at University College of North Wales, Bangor.[2]

In 1937 she was inducted into the Linnean Society of London.

Martin was a co-founder of the British Phycological Society with her friend and fellow phycologist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker[3] and later served as Vice President of the organisation.[4] [5]

Her collection of algal specimens is house in the herbarium of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.[6]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Martin, Margaret Trevena (1905-) on JSTOR . Global Plants . JSTOR . 6 December 2018 . en .
  2. Newroth . P.R. . Taylor . A.R.A. . The distribution of Ceratocolax hartzii . British Phycological Bulletin . December 1968 . 3 . 3 . 543–546 . 10.1080/00071616800650161. free .
  3. Web site: Drew [married name Baker], Kathleen Mary (1901–1957), phycologist]. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/94193. 2020-03-25.
  4. Book: London . Linnean Society of . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London . 1937 . 6 December 2018 . en.
  5. Book: British Phycological Bulletin . 1960 . 398 . 6 December 2018 . en.
  6. Cleal . Christopher J . Pardoe . Heather S . Slade . Katherine . Whyman . Sally . Tangney . Raymond S . Jüttner Department . Ingrid . The Welsh National Herbarium . Botany Letters . 2021 . 169 . 1 . 3 - 17 . 10.1080/23818107.2021.1977178.