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Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886 - 1945)
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Zoologist
Born: 21 November 1886  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 21 June 1945  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan became a Lecturer in 1921 and a Senior Lecturer in 1925 in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. Her much used text "Elements of Animal Morphology" was published in 1921. Prior to this she tutored biology at the secondary school and tertiary levels
Career Highlights

Chronology
1908Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1909Junior Demonstrator in Biology at the University of Melbourne
1910Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1910 - 1913Tutor in Biology at Queen's College, University of Melbourne
1910 - 1920Senior Biology Mistress at the Presbyterian Ladies' College
1913 - 1914Research on the embryology of Australian marsupials at University College, London
c. 1914 - c. 1916Tutor in Biology at Queen's, Ormond and Trinity colleges at the University of Melbourne
1914 - 1916Public Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology
1915Government scholarship received for inquiry into human embryology
1916Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
1919 - 1922Public Examiner in Animal Morphology and Physiology
1920Lecturer-in-charge of Biology at the University of Western Australia
1921 - 1924Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Melbourne
1925 - 1944Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Melbourne
1926Acting Head of Department at the University of Melbourne
1935Founding member of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research

 
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