Kirkaldy, Jane Willis (c. 1869–1932)

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Kirkaldy, Jane Willis (c. 1869–1932)

English zoologist. Born c. 1869 in UK; died June 19, 1932; Somerville College, Oxford, BS, 1891, MA, 1920.

Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford, for 36 years, was one of its 1st two women to graduate with first-class honors in the natural sciences; worked as a visiting teacher and a science lecturer in London; employed as a private tutor in Yorkshire; served as a tutor for Association for the Education of Women at Oxford's School of Natural Sciences (1894–30); lectured and tutored for Oxford Women's Societies; coauthored An Introduction to the Study of Biology (with I.M. Drummond, 1909); (trans. with E. Pollard, 1896) Textbook of Zoology, a book by J.E.V. Boas.