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19th-20th century English botanist and zoologist

Sibille Ormston Ford (1874 – 1932) was an English botanist and zoologist.  

She was born in Leeds, the daughter of a silk mill manager, in 1874. She was the niece of reformer Isabella Ormston Ford.

Ford gained a first class pass in botany and zoology at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1899. She received a Bathurst studentship to continue her studies in 1900–2, and taught as an assistant in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women in 1901–2. She received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1906 (where Cambridge alumni would travel to receive their degrees while Cambridge was not awarding them to women).

She published several solo and joint papers on plant anatomy, including a review of the Araucariaceae with Albert Seward which was published by the Royal Society in 1906.  

Ford was a Quaker, and assisted with the Friends Relief Mission in Bar-le-Duc, Verdun in 1918–20.

She died in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria in 1932.

The standard author abbreviation S.O.Ford is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Select works

  • 'The anatomy of Ceratopteris Thalictroides' (1902)
  • (with Alfred Seward) 'The Anatomy of Todea, with notes on the geological history and affinities of the Osmundaceae' (1903)
  • 'The Anatomy of Psilotum triquetrum' (1904)
  • (with Alfred Seward) 'The Araucarieae, recent and extinct' (1906)

References

  1. ^ "Sibille Ford". www.newbotaniststwo.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  2. Richmond, Marsha L. (1997). ""A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914". Isis. 88 (3): 422–455. doi:10.1086/383769. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 236151. PMID 9450359.
  3. Jones, C. (2009-10-15). Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914. Springer. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-230-24665-2.
  4. International Plant Names Index.  S.O.Ford.
  5. Ford, Sibille O. (1902). "The Anatomy of Ceratopteris thalictroides, (L.)". Annals of Botany. os-16 (1): 95–122. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a088872. ISSN 1095-8290.
  6. Seward, A. C.; Ford, Sibille O. (1903). "V. The Anatomy of Todea, with Notes on the Geological History and Affinities of the Osmundaceae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Botany. 6 (5): 237–260. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1903.tb00008.x.
  7. Ford, Sibille O. (1904). "The Anatomy of Psilotum triquetrum". Annals of Botany. os-18 (4): 589–605. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a088978. ISSN 1095-8290.
  8. "The araucarieæ, recent and extinct". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 77 (515): 163–164. 1906-01-06. doi:10.1098/rspb.1906.0007. ISSN 0950-1193.
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