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Cookson, Isabel C.

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Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000000035Activities & OccupationsAcademics - BotanyHistoryIsabel Clifton Cookson was born in Melbourne in December 1893 and educated at Hambledon Ladies' College and later at the Methodist Ladies' College before entering the University of Melbourne where she graduated B.Sc. in 1916. She tutored at Newman and was appointed as Lecturer in Botany "including evening") for 1930 and remained associated with the Department until her death on 1 July 1973, when she was still a Research Associate. She visited Europe for the first time in 1925, and in 1929 studied at the University of Manchester under Professor Lang, a specialist in fossil plants. In 1948 she received a Leverhulme Research Grant and in 1952 attended the 40th session of the Indian Science Congress.

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Isabel Cookson in long skirt and jacket in garden

Isabel Cookson in formal dress in garden

Isabel Cookson in academic gown

Isabel Cookson Mount Barker Melbourne Delegation

Three women with a man at cairn in bushland

Isabel Cookson and another woman playing croquet in garden

Isabel Cookson with two women on verandah

Two women in a garden

Isabel Cookson at 18

Isabel Cookson at 14 or 15

Isabel Cookson as young girl

Isabel Cookson as small child

Elizabeth Summers Cookson

John Cookson

Women biology students, University of Melbourne.

Isabel Cookson in her office in the Pollen Unit at the University of Melbourne 1954

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Correspondence from Isabel Cookson

Biographical notes by Margaret Archer

Birth certificate (copy)

Notebook: 40th Session of Indian Science Congress

Letter to Isabel Cookson from University of Manchester

Isabel Cookson Passport

Exercise Book (undated)

Travel notebook

Birthday Book

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[1993.0181] Papers of Isabel Clifton Cookson

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DateDecember 1893 - 1 July 1973

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Given NameIsabelMiddle NameCliftonFamily NameCookson

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Member of OrganisationSchool Of Botany (University Of Melbourne)ColleaguesTurner, John S.Chambers, Thomas CarrickDuigan, Suzanne L.

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Cookson, Isabel C.