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The British Pteridological Society is for fern enthusiasts of the British Isles, and was founded in England in 1891. [1]The origins and early history of the BPS at the time of "Pteridomania" is described in the book The Victorian Fern Craze. [2]
Professor Mary Gibby OBE FLS FRSE (27 February 1949 – 17 July 2024) was a British botanist, pteridologist and cytologist. She was an expert on ferns, becoming president of the British Pteridological Society and long-time editor of its journal, the Fern Gazette. Gibby particularly studied the cytology of the genera Dryopteris and Pelargonium.
In 1975 the British Pteridological Society dedicated an edition of The Fern Gazette to celebrate his Eightieth birthday, and the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society published eight short addresses about his life. [8]
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1961 for her work on the ultramicroscopic structure of plants and on their evolution. [13] In 1969 she was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [14] From 1969 to 1972 she was President of the British Pteridological Society.
[8] [9] She was invited to join the British Pteridological Society as an honour member but elected to join as an honour subscribing member. After her time in the UK studying British ferns, she returned to Sweden to work at Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm. [10]
British Psychological Society, the representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom; British Pteridological Society, the focal point for fern enthusiasts throughout the United Kingdom; Buddhist Publication Society, a charity aiming to spread the teachings of Buddha
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She was born in Castle Gate, Nottingham on 4 May 1804 to Richard and Margaretta Hopper. [1] She married John Riley in 1826, agent for the Montague family in Papplewick, north of Nottingham, where she lived for the rest of her life.