Ethel Currie

Ethel Currie
DSc FRSE FGS FGSG
Born Ethel Dobbie Currie
(1899-12-04)4 December 1899
Glasgow, Scotland
Died 24 March 1963(1963-03-24) (aged 63)
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Residence 81 Seymour Street (1901)
Nationality Scottish
Alma mater University of Glasgow
Known for palaeontology, being one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Awards Neill Prize
Wollaston Fund
Scientific career
Fields Geology
Institutions Hunterian Museum

Dr Ethel Dobbie Currie DSc FRSE FGS FGSG (4 December 1899-24 March 1963) was a distinguished Scottish geologist and one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Life and career

Ethel Dobbie Currie was born at 92 Seymour Street, Cathcart, Glasgow (moving to 81 Seymour Street soon after) on 4 December 1899 to Elizabeth Laughlan Allan and James Ferguson Currie. She was a pupil of Bellahouston Academy. She graduated with a BSc from University of Glasgow in 1920 and her PhD in 1923. From 1920 she was assistant to Dr William Smellie at the Hunterian Museum.[1]

She was also awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1945.

Currie's primary research interest was in palaeontology. Her first publication was a joint paper with Professor John Gregory on fossil sea-urchins. She led a study of Scottish carboniferous goniatites.[2]

In 1945 she became the first woman to be awarded the Neill Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1949, she was one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (along with Sheina Marshall).[2] Her proposers were Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, John Weir, Murray Macgregor, Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman, George W Tyrell, and Thomas Neville George.[3]

Her contributions were acknowledged by the Geological Society of London and she was awarded its Wollaston Fund.[4][5]

Professor John Gregory invited her to assist with the care and arrangement of the geological collections in the Hunterian Museum after her graduation. She worked as assistant curator of the Museum until she retired in September 1962.

She died in Glasgow on 24 March 1963.

[6]Publications

Ethel Currie published three books[7]

  • Jurassic and Eocene Echinoidea from Somaliland (Papers from the Geological department. Glasgow University) (1927)
  • Note on rocks from the Sahara collected by Captain D.R.G. Cameron (Papers from the Geological department. Glasgow (1931)
  • The vertebrate fossils from the glacial and associated post-glacial beds of Scotland in the Hunterian museum (1928) jointly with J. W. Currie

References

  1. ↑ The Life and Work of Prof J W Gregory FRS by Bernard E Leslie
  2. 1 2 "Leading the study of Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites". World Changing. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Former fellow list" (PDF). www.royalsoced.org.uk.
  4. ↑ "Ethel Dobbie Currie". The University of Glasgow story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Clarke, Neil. "Ethel Dobbie Currie". Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Ethel Dobbie Currie". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  7. ↑ "Books by Ethel Currie". Retrieved 3 December 2013.
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