Carola Ivena Meikle (''née'' Dickinson) was a British algologist. She was born in 1900 in Alston,

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

, and died in 1970 in

Wootton Courtenay Wootton Courtenay is a village and civil parish on Exmoor in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Brockwell and Huntscott. The village lies on the route of the Macmillan Way West and the ...

, Somerset. Meikle was the author of ''British

Seaweeds Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of '' Rhodophyta'' (red), ''Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ...

'', published in 1963 as part of the Kew Series by Eyre and Spottiswoode. She was born on 27 April 1900 and for much of her working life studied Algae at the Kew Herbarium. She married her co-worker Robert Meikle OBE who was at the time editing the Kew Series of Natural History Books. And so thus British Seaweeds was published in 1963, under Carola's maiden name Carola Ivena Dickinson. (dJm April 2017)

Published

Dickinson, Carol I. 1963. ''British Seaweeds.'' The Kew Series.

Sources

* 1900 births 1970 deaths People from Alston, Cumbria {{UK-scientist-stub