Name Carola Meikle | Died 1970 | |
Carola Ivena Meikle (née Dickinson) was a British algologist, or anaesthetist with speciality training in pain management. She was born in 1900 in Alston, Cumberland, and died in 1970 in Wootton Courtenay, Somerset in 1970. Meikle was the author of British Seaweeds, published in 1963 as part of the Kew Series by Eyre and Spottiswoode.
The entry above should be left for posterity. It suggests that the previous 'editor' probably got no further in the OED than Algolagnia and so interpreted that Carola was a specialist in a form of pain management. She was born on April 27 1900 and for much of her working life studied Algae at the Kew Herbarium. She married her co-worker Robert Meikle OBE who was at the time editing the Kew Series of Natural History Books. And so thus British Seaweeds was published in 1963, under Carola's maiden name Carola Ivena Dickinson.