Helen Vanderplank

Helen Joyce Vanderplank (1919-2005) bụ onye ọkà mmụta ihe ndị dị ndụ na Saụt Afrịka nke a mụrụ na mba Briten, onye na-ese ihe gbasara osisi na onye na-ahụ maka ihe ngosi ihe mgbe ochie.

Akụkọ ndụ

A mụrụ Vanderplank n'ụbọchị ịrị abụọ na asatọ n'ọnwa Julaị n'afọ 1919 na Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Ọ gara Bristol Clifton High School for Girls na Bristol ma gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Birkbeck College na London na BSc Honours na botany na zoology. Vanderplank kwagara South Africa ma kụzie na Bishop's na St. Cyprian's School na Cape Town tupu ọ banye n'ọkwa dị ka onye nkuzi na Grahamstown Teachers Training College ruo mgbe ọ mechiri n'afọ 1975. Ihe osise bụ ihe ntụrụndụ kachasị amasị ya mgbe niile, a họpụtara ya dị ka onye na-ese ihe ngosi na Albany Museum, Grahamstown, ọkwá ọ nọ na ya ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká n'afọ 1984.

N'ime afọ ya na Albany Museum "ọ gbanwere gallery site na gallery site n'iji nkà nka ya n'ụzọ sara mbara". Nke ahụ gụnyere Children's Gallery na Invertebrates Gallery ebe dioramas ya bụ "windo n'ime ọhịa nke okooko osisi, mosses na ọtụtụ ụmụ ahụhụ" na "ọrụ nka kachasị mma". A na-eji silk emepụta okooko osisi ya, akwụkwọ ya na ụmụ ahụhụ, usoro onye ọkachamara kụziiri ya na Cardiff Museum, ọbụnakwa afọ 30 ka e mesịrị "ihe nkiri ahụ dị ọhụrụ dị ka mgbe mbụ o mere ha".

Mgbe Harry Oppenheimer's De Beers Consolidated Mines zụtara ebe obibi na azụmaahịa Henry Carter Galpin, nna Ernest Edward Galpin nke South Africa, ma gbanwee ya ka ọ bụrụ Ụlọ Ihe Ngosi Ihe Observatory n'afọ 1982, Vanderplank chịkọtara mkpokọta urukurubụba, igwe osisi na akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme eke niile egosiri ebe ahụ. O mekwara mgbidi "akwụkwọ mmiri" nke mbipụta Oxalis maka ụlọ ihe ngosi nka, yana okooko osisi Eastern Cape nke Victorian n'okpuru dome iko nke sitere na silk, wax na waya dị ka onyinye pụrụ iche maka Harry Oppenheimer.

Mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká, Vanderplank kwagara Port Elizabeth ebe ya na ezigbo enyi ya bụ CJ Skead jikọrọ aka n'ọtụtụ ọrụ nke mere ka o mepụta akwụkwọ ya nke nwere mpịakọta abụọ nke Wildflowers na mpaghara Port Elizabeth. Akwụkwọ abụọ ahụ nwere ihe osise karịrị otu puku nke gụnyere ma ọ dịkarịa ala ụdị osisi dị iche iche 900. Ọ nwụrụ na n'ụbọchị asaa n'ọnwa Febụwarị n'afọ 2005.

 

 

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

• Brink (2006). "Obituary: Helen Joyce Vanderplank (1919-2005)". Bothalia 36 (1): 129–131. DOI:10.4102/abc.v36i1.350.