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Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898 - 1975)

Palaeontologist and Geologist

Born: 15 February 1898 North Carlton, Victoria, Australia. Died: 21 August 1975 Centennial Park, New South Wales, Australia.

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.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1918 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1920 - 1928 Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Women Graduates Association
1921 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1927 Worked on crystallography under Professor Arthur Hutchinson at the mineralogical laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK
1928 - 1938 Honorary Secretary of the Australian Federation of University Women
1939 Helped establish the Australian Association of Scientific Workers
1950 Worked with Dr Gertrude Elles in the Sedgwick Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
1967 Studied fossil collections in Peking (Beijing), China

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 15 September 2004

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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