Ann Wylie

Ann Philippa Wylie (born 1922) is a New Zealand botanist, and was an associate professor at the University of Otago before her retirement in 1987.

Ann Wylie
Born
Ann Philippa Wylie

1922 (age 98–99)
Alma materUniversity of London
AwardsMasters Memorial Lecture 1954
Scientific career
FieldsCytology, genetics, botany
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago

Academic career

In 1944,[1] Wylie was completing an honours degree in the Department of Botany at the University of Otago when Professor John Holloway retired suddenly through ill health. Alongside Betty Batham, Margaret Cookson and Brenda Shore, Wylie took up teaching to keep the department going. Wylie submitted her Masters thesis, titled Vascular anatomy of New Zealand's malvaceous trees in 1945, while resident in St Margaret's College.[2]

Wylie went to the University of London in 1947, where she completed a PhD in the new fields of cytology and genetics, and then lectured at the University of Manchester. Returning to New Zealand, she worked in the Department of Botany at the University of Otago, setting up courses on cytology and genetics, and teaching both zoology and botany students.[3][4][5]

According to an interview given in her nineties, Wylie recalled that "women were well accepted in zoology and botany and she did not experience prejudice, though she also notes that women lecturers behaved as ‘honorary men’; it was they who had to adapt rather than the men."[6]

Wylie rose to associate professor before retiring in 1987.[3]

In 2017, Wylie was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words.[3]

Selected works
  • Ann P Wylie (August 1952). "The history of the garden Narcissi". Heredity. 6 (2): 137–156. doi:10.1038/HDY.1952.16. ISSN 0018-067X. Wikidata Q56135524.
  • JEAN M. ARMSTRONG; ANN P. WYLIE (March 1965). "A New Basic Chromosome Number in the Family Fagaceae". Nature. 205 (4978): 1340–1341. doi:10.1038/2051340B0. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q59080695.
  • Ann Wylie (1954). "The History of Garden Roses (Masters Memorial Lecture, 1954.) With plates". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. 79: 8–24. ISSN 0035-8924. OCLC 760274491. Wikidata Q104605940.
  • Ann Wylie; C Darlington (1955), Chromosome Atlas of Flowering Plants, Allen & Unwin, OCLC 3473037, Wikidata Q104605923
  • Ann Wylie (1945), Vascular anatomy of New Zealand's malvaceous trees: thesis presented for the degree of Master of Science in Botany, University of New Zealand, OCLC 154265405, Wikidata Q104606144
  • Ann Wylie (1957). "The chromosome numbers of mosses". Transactions of the British Bryological Society. 3: 260–278. ISSN 0068-1385. OCLC 66847866. Wikidata Q104606202.

References
  1. Baylis, Geoff. "John Ernest Holloway". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. Lewis, John (31 January 2011). "College ex-residents compare times". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. "Ann Wylie". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Clarke, Ali (5 October 2013). "Some fine fellows". University of Otago 1869–2019. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. Alison Clarke (2018). Otago : 150 years of New Zealand's first university. Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-988531-33-5. Wikidata Q63406621.
  6. Clarke, Ali (27 March 2016). "Scientific women". University of Otago 1869–2019. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

Interview (with photo) with Wylie about life as a resident of St Margaret's College during the war

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