Margaret Sibella Brown
Canadian botanist (1866-1961) · Canada · Scientists · Died at 95
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Something wrong?Margaret Sibella Brown was a Canadian amateur bryologist specializing in mosses and liverworts native to Nova Scotia. Early in her career she was involved with gathering supplies of sphagnum moss to be used as surgical dressings during World War I, when cotton was in short supply.
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Brown, aged 7
Brown and her twin sister Elizabeth with unidentified child
Sample of sphagnum for use as a surgical dressing
Sketches of Entosthodon neoscoticus from Brown's 1932 paper
Yale University Herbarium catalogue card which reads Lejeunea patens Lindb. / On rocks. New Brunswick / Long Island, Kennebecaisis / (Collected by) M. S. Brown July '23Awards
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Margaret Sibella Brown was a Canadian amateur bryologist specializing in mosses and liverworts native to Nova Scotia. Early in her career she was involved with gathering supplies of sphagnum moss to be used as surgical dressings during World War I, when cotton was in short supply. After the war, she researched mosses from around the world, collecting specimens in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as her native Canada. She published several papers in academic journals, some on materials she had collected herself and some cataloging samples collected by other investigators. Samples she collected are now housed at several major herbaria in North America and Europe.
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