Biographical entry Irwin-Smith, Vera Adelaide

Summary

Vera Adelaide Irwin-Smith was an entomologist who specialised in Diptera Brachycera - parasitic flies. She wrote several articles on her research.

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Events

1916

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

1919 - 1923

Career position - Linnean Macleay Fellow in Zoology at the University of Sydney

1923

Career position - Researcher at the Molteno Institute in Cambridge

Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

• Vera Adelaide Irwin-Smith - Records, P 84; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004, 215 pp. Details
• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Vera Adelaide Irwin-Smith', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 90, no. 1, 1965, pp. 5-6. Details

Online Resources

• 'Irwin-Smith, Vera Adelaide', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475449. Details