BERRIDGE, Emily Mary (1872-1947)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0505 PP27
Held at	: Royal Holloway, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/archives ›
Full title	: BERRIDGE, Emily Mary (1872-1947)
Date(s)	: 1904-1948
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Berridge | Emily Mary | 1872-1947 | botanist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1872; educated Dulwich High School, Kent, and Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges, London, gaining a BSc in Physics, 1898; elected one of first female members of Linnean Society, 1905, and was one of the first women to read a paper before the Society, Nov 1905; scientific papers published in The Annals of Botany and The New Phytologist, 1905-1914; Research Student at University College, 1906, and Imperial College, 1910, University of London; founded research laboratory at Bedford College, University of London, 1909; work on the agglutination of dysentery bacteria and preparation of serum, University of Liverpool, 1914-1919; work on the separation and identification of plant pathogenic bacteria, Imperial College, University of London, 1919-1920; set up Botanical Research Fund for postgraduate students and gave equipment to Royal Holloway Botanical Department; died 1947.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to her life and career, 1904-1948, including correspondence and notes, 1904-1906, mainly relating to experiments by Berridge on the fertilisation of Carpinus Betulus (European Hornbeam), and the publication of a paper on the subject by the Linnean Society, notably including correspondence with Professor Margaret Jane Benson, Head of the Botany Department at Royal Holloway College, and a copy of 'Contributions to the embryology of the Amentiferae part II: Carpinus Betulus' by Berridge, Benson and Elizabeth Sanday, [1905]; correspondence, 1912, between Berridge and Professor Margaret Jane Benson, on the collection of new flower samples and the prospective reading of their Amentiferae paper in Dundee; research notes by Berridge, 1910-1948, on a variety of botanical subjects including Carpinus and agglutination, mainly comprising notebooks, notes on articles and experiment notes; notebook, 1948, belonging to Professor Elizabeth Marianne Blackwell, Head of the Botany Department at Royal Holloway College, containing obituaries of Berridge from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 26 Nov 1948, and Nature vol 161, 17 Jan 1948, with a list of Berridge's papers.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The documents have been sorted and annotated (probably by Professor Elizabeth Marianne Blackwell, Head of Botany, Royal Holloway College, 1922-1949), and are arranged into correspondence, research notes and obituaries.

Conditions governing access:

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives by the family.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold the papers of Professor Margaret Jane Benson (PP26), and reprints of obituaries of Berridge from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 26 Nov 1948, and Nature vol 161, 17 Jan 1948 (RHC RF136/1-2).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2000