Английская Википедия:Helena M. L. Forbes
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Helena M. L. Forbes (11 September 1900 – 5 September 1959) was a Scottish botanist, plant collector and curator who worked primarily on South African flora.
Biography
Helena Madelain Lamond Forbes was born on 11 September 1900 in Forfar, Scotland.[1] When she was a young child, her parents emigrated to Durban and Forbes childhood was spent there.[1] On 1 July 1919 she joined Natal Herbarium in Durban as a Junior Assistant in the Botany Division.[2] She became responsible for herbarium maintenance and plant identification.[3] From 1936–37 she worked at Kew Gardens as the South African Liaison Officer.[4] She subsequently returned to South Africa, where she joined the National Herbarium in Pretoria in 1938.[1] In 1940 she returned to Natal Herbarium as Curator and stayed in post until her retirement on 10 September 1955.[1][2] At her retirement she was described as "a stalwart that kept botanical wheels turning at the herbarium".[3] She suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and died on 5 September 1959.[2]
Research
Forbes was recognised as an authority on the flora of the Natal and, whilst she did not publish widely, she did contribute major revisions of two genera: Psoralea and Tephrosia.[1] Work on Psoralea had begun as early in her career as 1923 and in 1934 she began her work on Tephrosia.[3] During her lifetime she published thirty-two plant names,[5] some of which include: the taxon Ophrestia;[6] Kalanchoe albiflora.[7] During her time at the Natal Herbarium she contributed 1400 specimens to the collection, most of which were from the region.[4] Early in her career she worked on the genus Cassia, as well as flora from Isipingo.[3]
Eponym
The Indian Ocean alga Beckerella helenae is named after Forbes.[8]
Selected publications
- 'The Genus Psoralea Linn.' in Bothalia (1936).[9]
- 'A further record of the genus azalea in South Africa. A. Alata (sim) h. Forbes.' South African Journal of Science (1939).[10]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Forbes, H. L. "A further record of the genus azalea in South Africa. A. Alata (sim) h. Forbes." South African Journal of Science 36.12 (1939): 315.
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- British emigrants to the Colony of Natal
- 20th-century Scottish women scientists
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