Edith Philip Smith

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Edith Philip Smith

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Botany

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According to Wikipedia, Edith Philip Smith FLS FRSE was a botanist and teacher who became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Head of the Botany Department at Queen's College, Dundee . Career She was one of the first female graduates to receive a degree at the University of Oxford when the first women's graduation ceremony was held there in 1920. She studied at Somerville College, and in June 1920 passed exams in the School of Natural Science with first-class honours, leading to a BA. She then spent a year at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, and undertook research in the plant physiology laboratory at Harvard. Next came a period in the Department of Botany at King's College London. In 1925 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. The following year, 1926, she was appointed as a lecturer in botany at University College, Dundee, which at that time was part of the University of St Andrews.

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XXVI.—A Comparative Study of the Stem Structure of the Genus Clematis, with special reference to Anatomical Changes induced by Vegetative Propagation (18)
The calibration of flower colour indicators (1933) (14)
The Anatomy And Propagation Of Clematis (10)
Acidity of the Medium and Root Production in Coleus (1926) (9)
The Origin Of Adventitious Growths In Coleus (8)
The Effect of General Anaesthetics on the Respiration of Cereals I. Carbon Dioxide Production (1924) (4)
Stomatal Movement and Hydrogen Ion Concentration (1932) (3)
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON RESPIRATION XXII. THE EFFECT OF LACTIC ACID ON THE RESPIRATION OF WHEAT (1922) (3)
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON RESPIRATION : XIX. A PRELIMINARY STAGE IN THE PROGRESS OF ETHER ANESTHESIA. (1921) (2)
Nodal Anatomy of Some Common Trees (1937) (2)
The Germination Of Garcinia Ovalifolia, Oliv (0)
BUFFER EFFECTS OF TAP-WATER IN THE ESTIMATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE BY CHANGE IN HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION (1923) (0)
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON RESPIRATION (1921) (0)
A Note on Conjunction in Zygnema (1922) (0)
Stelar structure in the dicotyledons. A resurvey based on considerations of development (1941) (0)

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