Studied at Ladies’ College, Edinburgh (Dux Medallist and Travelling Scholar). Gold Medallist in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy under Professor East. Ray Lankester, University College, London, 1889-1890. Graduated Doctor of Science 1893, London University.
Studied Geology and Palaeontology, Munich University, 1891-1895, and was awarded the Phi Doctorate. degree with highest honours in 1900, when the degree was for the first time conferred by that University on women.
Is a Vice president of National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland.
Career
Vice-President Scottish Association for Promotion of Women's Public Work, and First Vice-President of International Council of Women. Fellow of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Has contributed many new observations regarding the volcanic and dynamic phenomena in the “ Dolomites ” of South Tyrol, and successfully contested the application of Darwin’s coral-reef theory to the so-called “Dolomite Reefs” of this area.
Also investigated the microscopical structure of the skeleton of corals, both fossil and recent.