Inez Frances Stebbins studied at Oberlin College (near Cleveland, Ohio) in the United States, where she was awarded the degree Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1902. She was employed at the college as assistant in botany during 1902-1903. In 1904 (or somewhat earlier) she came to the Cape Colony to take up an appointment as teacher of botany at Huguenot College, Wellington, under Dr Bertha Stoneman*. She also taught library science. Meanwhile she continued with post-graduate work in botany through Oberlin College and in 1909 completed her thesis for the degree Master of Arts (MA): A taxonomic study of the trees of the Cape Colony; analytical key based on leaf characters. Meanwhile she had also collected and supplied part of the material on which L.L. Burlingame based his study on "The staminate cone and male gametophyte of Podocarpus" (1908). She returned to the United States early in 1909.

Stebbins became a member of the South African Philosophical Society in 1904, but her membership lapsed when it became the Royal Society of South Africa in 1908. She joined the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1905. By 1906 she was a member also of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, but her membership had lapsed by 1910.

List of sources:

British Assoiation for the Advancement of Science. Report of the seventy-fifth meeting... South Africa, 1905, list of members.

Burlingame, L.L. The staminate cone and male gametophyte of Podocarpus. Botanical Gazette, 1908. Retrieved on 24 November 2020 from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/329694

FamilySearch: Inez F. Stebbins, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4R4-CW4?lang=en AND Inez Frances Stebbins, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112929697/inez-frances-stebbins AND Inez Frances Stebbine, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXRP-2Z2?lang=en

Geldenhuys, C.J. Annotated bibliography of South African indigenous evergreen forest ecology. Pretoria: CSIR, 1985.

Huguenot College. Calendar of the Huguenot College and seminaries, 1904/5.

South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Report, 1905/6, list of members.

South African Philosophical Society. Transactions, 1906-1907, Vol. 16 and 17: Lists of members.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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