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Nellie Bancroft

Nellie Bancroft
Born
Helen Holme Bancroft

30 September 1887 (1887-09-30)
Derby, England
Died2 October 1950 (1950-10-03) (aged 63)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
SpouseCharles Eyres Simmons
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, palaeobotany
InstitutionsBedford College
Westfield College
University of Oxford
Author abbrev. (botany)H.H.Bancr.

Helen Holme Simmons[1] FRS FLS (née Bancroft; 30 September 1887 – 2 October 1950), commonly known as Nellie Bancroft,[2][3][4] was a British botanist and scientific illustrator famous for her work on plant systematics and the anatomy of both living and fossil plants.[1] Bancroft was while working for the Imperial Forestry Institute in France in 1940 captured by the Germans and spent four years in internment before being released and returning home in 1944.

  1. ^ a b "Announcements". Nature. 149 (3783): 498. 1942-05-01. Bibcode:1942Natur.149U.498.. doi:10.1038/149498e0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 41. ISBN 0-85066-843-3.
  4. ^ "Bancroft, Helen Holme (Nellie)". JSTOR. Retrieved 2022-05-26.

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