The life and work of Margaret M Smith

Title: The life and work of Margaret M Smith
Subject: Smith, Margaret Mary
Date Issued: 1982
Date: 1982
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:15054
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020236
Description: From Conclusion: During her remarkable scientific career, Margaret Smith has progressed from lecturer to technician, artist and taxonomist, and now enters a new phase in retirement as the senior editor of the revision of her husband’s book ‘The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa’. Up until the end of 1981, she had co-authored three books, edited three books and authored or co-authored 35 scientific papers and numerous popular articles. She had produced about two thousand colour and black and white illustrations of the fishes of southern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Four fish species have been named for her — Simochromis margaretae from Lake Tanganyika, Pseudocheilinus margaretae from Aldabra Island, Canthigaster smithae and Chlidichthys smithae from Mauritius and Trachurus margaretae from Durban. She has established a network of collaborating ichthyologists which is probably unique and which has resulted in the Ichthyology Institute in Grahamstown becoming a mecca for researchers in the field. Her infectious enthusiasm for fishes has also inspired a generation of anglers, naturalists, students, scholars and, especially, children in South Africa and abroad. We all salute this great lady, an accomplished musician, mother, artist, scientist, patriot, humanitarian, and above all, a humble and generous friend — Margaret Mary Smith.
Format: [i], 13 pages; ill; 23 cm
Format: pdf
Language: English
Rights: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Rights: CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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