R. D. Meikle’s scientific contributions

... In these networks, there are examples of active female botanists . Marian Farquharson (1846–1912) authored the Pocket Guide to British Ferns and campaigned for women's admission to the Royal and Linnean Societies (Ridley, 1881; Mason, 1995); Eliza Standerwick Gregory (1840–1832) wrote a monograph on Violets (Gregory, 1912); Gwendolen Day (1884–1967) was president of the Bedford Natural History and Archaeological Society; Lady Joanna Davy (1865– 1955) and Gertrude Foggit (A.K.A Gertrude Bacon, 1874–1949) were co-discoverers of Carex microglochin in Britain (Desmond, 1977). Gertrude Foggit was a particularly pioneering woman, being the first woman to fly in an airship and the first English woman to fly in an airplane (Haines, 2001). ...

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Herbarium specimens reveal the exchange network of British and Irish botanists, 1856–1932

... This equates to an approximate rate of 12.5 meters per year. The concept of rapid plant migration, initially elucidated by Reid (Reid, 1899), shed light on the phenomenon where oaks spread at a pace faster than the natural dispersal rate of their seeds in northern England following the last glacial period. The primary reason behind this phenomenon, referred to as the Rapid Plant Migration Paradox (Clark et al., 1998), is the assumption that crows play a significant role in facilitating such rapid dispersal. ...

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Kitap Bölümü Juniperus