Name Augusta Duthie | Died October 23, 1963 | |
Augusta Vera Duthie (18 July 1881– 8 August 1963) was a South African botanist with particular interest in the Western Cape.
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One of five children, she was born to Archibald Hamilton and Augusta Vera Duthie and in Knysna, South Africa. She obtained a B.A. from Huguenot College in 1901, a M.A. from South African College in 1910, and a D.Sc. from University of South Africa in 1929.
She was appointed as botany lecturer at Victoria College, now University of Stellenbosch in 1902. In 1912, she visited Cambridge University and worked with Albert Charles Seward. In 1929, she completed flora of the Stellenbosch Flats, an alluvial area surrounding the college. After her retirement 1939, she returned to manage her family farm Belvidere where she died in 1963.
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Vegetation and Flora of the Stellenbosch Flats, 1929