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    Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18732

    Two botanists

    Date
    1924
    Sitter
    Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865 - 1945, British) , Botanist
    Ethel Nancy Miles Thomas (1876 - 1944, British) , Botanist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 98mm
    width (print): 122mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Portraits of Edith Saunders and Ethel Thomas, shown examining a plant, with a woodland scene behind.

    The image is from an album of original photographs, with postcards and other pictures collected during the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1924. The album shows participants in activities of Section K: Botany. This page is inscribed above: ‘Niagara Glen August 8th-10th’.

    Image inscribed below: ‘Miss Saunders [Cambridge]. Dr E. Miles Thomas’.

    An account of the British Association gathering, by R D’O Good and A B Rendle, appeared in the Journal of Botany v.63 (1925), pp.1-9.

    Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865-1945) British botanist, Director of Studies at Girton and Newnham Colleges, Cambridge.
    Ethel Nancy Miles Thomas [married name Hyndman] (1876-1944) British botanist. Head of Botany at Bedford College, London, from 1908.
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