Mary Cecilia Foley
Mary Cecilia Foley | |
---|---|
Alma mater | University College, London B.Sc (1891) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of London |
Mary Cecilia Foley (8 October 1859 - 22 October 1925)[1] was a geologist, who worked at the University of London.[2]
Foley was born at Wadhurst, Sussex in October 1859. She was the daughter of John Foley, vicar of Wadhurst, and Caroline Elizabeth Foley (née Windham), and had a sister, Caroline Rhys Davids and a brother Charles Windham Foley.[1]
Foley studied at University College, London under geologist Thomas George Bonney. She graduated in 1891 with an honours degree in geology and was awarded the Morris prize for geology.[2]
During the 1890s, Foley was an active member of the Geologists' Association, and published a number of reports of field excursions.[3][4][5] In 1896, she published a paper on 'enclosures of glass in basalt', based on field observations of some volcanic outcrops in the Eifel.[6]
She served on the council of the Geologists' association from 1897 to 1900, and from 1909 to 1912.[2] Foley was only the second woman, after Catherine Raisin, to be elected to serve on the council.[7] From 1901 to 1903, Foley was excursions secretary for the association.[8]
From 1901 to 1925 Foley was the Chief Lady Invigilator at London University.[9]
During the 1900s, Foley assisted her sister Rhys Davids with the transcription of two Buddhist texts in the Pali language: the Dukapaṭṭhāna (1906) and the Yamaka (1911).[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Collection of Rhys Davids family, Pali scholars - MC Foley". www.ames.cam.ac.uk. July 5, 2018.
- ^ a b c Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000-01-01). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: A-K. Taylor & Francis. p. 457. ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ Meeson, F.; Foley, M.C. (November 1897). "Excursion to Woking". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 15 (5): 185–188. Bibcode:1897PrGA...15..185M. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(97)80082-X.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Stebbing, W.P.D.; Foley, M.C. (July 1898). "Excursion to Penn and Coleshill, Bucks". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 15 (8): 311–312. Bibcode:1898PrGA...15..311S. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(98)80041-2.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Foley, Mary C. (July 1901). "Visit to the British Museum (natural history), cromwell road". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 17 (3): 117–118. Bibcode:1901PrGA...17..117F. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(01)80031-6.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Foley, Mary C. (June 1896). "II.—On Enclosures of Glass in a Basalt near Bertrich, in the Eifel". Geological Magazine. 3 (6): 242–245. Bibcode:1896GeoM....3..242F. doi:10.1017/S0016756800130936.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Mary R. S. Creese; Creese, Thomas M. (1994). "British Women Who Contributed to Research in the Geological Sciences in the Nineteenth Century". The British Journal for the History of Science. 27 (1): 23–54. doi:10.1017/S0007087400031654. JSTOR 4027579 – via JSTOR.
- ^ E.W. (1926). "Miss Mary Cecilia Foley". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 37: 229.
- ^ "Collection of Rhys Davids family, Pali scholars". www.ames.cam.ac.uk. July 5, 2018.
- ^ "Foley, Mary Cecilia | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
External links
[edit]