Anne Balderston Howard (born Townsend) was the daughter of Clayton W. Townsend and his wife Rachel Annette Levering. In August 1909 in Cape Town she married Charles Walter Howard*, entomologist in the Transvaal Colony (1905-1908) and government entomologist of Mozambique (1908-1911?). During her stay in southern Africa she made a few minor contributions to natural history. On 12 July 1910 a paper by her, "On the light-organs of fire flies", was presented at a meeting of the Transvaal Biological Society in Pretoria. The paper was subsequently published in the Annals of the Transvaal Museum (1911, Vol. 3(1), pp. 58-62). In 1910, and again in 1911, she presented some plants from Mozambique to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown.

List of sources:
Albany Museum. Annual Report for 1910-1913.

Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 1911, Vol. 3(1), paper by Mrs A.B. Howard.

FamilySearch: Anne Balderston Townsend. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KJ6W-86K/anne-balderston-townsend-1878-1964

The Transvaal Biological Society. South African Journal of Natural History, 1918, Vol. 1(1), pp. 21-32.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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