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    Rose Bracher

    Dr Rose Bracher (1894 – 1941)  

    Rose was a British botanist, mycologist and academic. She researched the ecology of the mud flats of the River Avon at Bristol, and particularly the genus Euglena. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1938. Bracher lectured at the University of Bristol, and in 1941 she was the first non-professorial woman to be elected to the university Senate. Bristol university offers a memorial prize in her name for the best student in botany, zoology and biology.  

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