Biographical entry Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898 - 1975)

Summary

Kathleen Margaret M. Sherrard took an active role in a number of women's organisations particularly women graduates and scientific workers and published a number of articles on palaeontology.

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Events

1918

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1920 - 1928

Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Women Graduates Association

1921

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1927

Career position - Worked on crystallography under Professor Arthur Hutchinson at the mineralogical laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK

1928 - 1938

Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Australian Federation of University Women

1939

Career position - Helped establish the Australian Association of Scientific Workers

1950

Career position - Worked with Dr Gertrude Elles in the Sedgwick Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

1967

Career position - Studied fossil collections in Peking (Beijing), China

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Kathleen Margaret Maria Sherrard - Records, 1918 - 1975, ML MSS 2950; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Grahame, Rachel, 'Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898-1975), Geologist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 233-234. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160276b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462791. Details