Bella MacCallum

Bella Dytes MacCallum (née MacIntosh, 1886 – 17 March 1927) was a New Zealand and British botanist and mycologist.

Early life and education

MacCallum was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the daughter of George and Rebecca Cross.[1] She attended Canterbury College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1908 and a master's degree in 1909. She earned her doctorate from the University of New Zealand in 1915 with a thesis on Phormium.[2] In 1915, she married Lance (Lancelot) Shadwell Jennings, and she was known as Bella Jennings.[1] Captain Jennings was killed on 15 September 1916 at the Western Front, aged 23.[3] In 1919, she married Peter MacCallum at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. She had three daughters from her second marriage.[1]

Career and research

In 1919, MacCallum moved to England, where she studied bacteriology at Cambridge Medical School, then moved to the University of Edinburgh, where she researched fungi. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1921. Less is known about her life after this point; she moved to Australia with her pathologist husband and died on 17 March 1927.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Social Notes". The Australasian. 26 March 1927. p. 54. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 818. ISBN 9780415920407.
  3. ↑ "Lancelot Shadwell Jennings". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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