Greta Stevenson

c. 1940s (?)

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa - C-17974

Unpublished

Dunedin and its surroundings did much to foster Greta Stevenson’s (1911-1990) love for botany. She attended the University of Otago in 1929 and was an outstanding botany student, graduating BSc in 1932 and MSc with first class honours in 1933. In 1934, a paper based on her MSc entitled ‘Life History of the New Zealand Species of the Parasitic Genus Korthalsella’ was published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, which greatly improved on descriptions by Hooker, Kirk, John Enys, and Cheeseman.