| LC control no. | n 87127210 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Smith, Annie Lorrain, 1854-1937 |
| Variant(s) | Smith, Annie Lorrain, 1854- Smith, Annie Lorrain, b. 1854 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Dumfriesshire (Scotland) London (England) |
| Birth date | 1854-10-23 |
| Death date | 1937-09-07 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Lichenology Mycology Fungi--Identification |
| Affiliation | British Mycological Society British Museum (Natural History). Department of Botany |
| Profession or occupation | Lichenologists Mycologists |
| Found in | LCCN 19-20044: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Botany. A monograph of the British lichens, 1918, '11 (hdg.: Smith, Annie Lorrain, 1854- ; usage: Annie Lorrain Smith) Smith, Annie Lorrain. Lichens, 1921: title page (by Annie Lorrain Smith. F.L.S., Acting Assistant, Botany Department, British Museum) Smith, Annie Lorrain. A handbook of the British lichens, 1921: title page (by Annie Lorrain Smith. F.L.S.) <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046248442&view=1up&seq=7> Wikipedia, viewed June 15, 2021: Annie Lorrain Smith (Annie Lorrain Smith (23 October 1854--7 September 1937) was a British lichenologist whose Lichens (1921) was an essential textbook for several decades. She was also a mycologist and founder member of the British Mycological Society, where she served as president for two terms ... Though born in Liverpool, her family lived in rural Dumfriessshire ... Lorrain-Smith at the British Museum ... She soon was responsible for identifying most of the fungi which arrived to the museum. She identified and reported on newly collected fungi, arriving from abroad as well as from the UK, and in total worked in the museum's cryptogamic herbarium from 1892 until 1933 ... Smith led a lichen survey of Clare Island, which was outside Clew Bay in Ireland, in 1910 and 1911 ... In 1921 Smith wrote the illustrated Handbook of British Lichens which was a key to all known British lichens. In the same year Lichens was published and was quickly established as a classic text ... Died 7 September 1937, London.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lorrain_Smith> |
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