Matilda Cullen Knowles

Matilda Cullen Knowles
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Born31 January 1864
Ballymena, Ireland
Died27 April 1933(1933-04-27) (aged 69)
Dublin, Ireland
Alma materRoyal College of Science for Ireland
Known forFormative study of Irish lichens
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
InstitutionsNational Museum of Ireland
Author abbrev. (botany)M.Knowles

Matilda Cullen Knowles (31 January 1864 – 27 April 1933) is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens[1] following her work in the early twentieth century on the multi-disciplinary Clare Island Survey. From 1923 she shared curatorship of the National Museum of Ireland herbarium – a collection of dried and pressed plants now housed at the National Botanic Gardens. Her work is said to have "formed an important baseline contribution to the cryptogamic botany of Ireland and western oceanic Europe".[2]

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