Louisa Lane Clarke (néeLouisa Lane; 1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and
travel writer, best known for her
microscopy work on plants.
Biography
Louisa Lane was born in 1812 in the
Channel Islands, the eldest daughter of Ambrose Lane and Elizabeth Lane, née Le Mesurier. On 14 September 1841, Lane married the Revd. Thomas Clarke (
c. 1805 – 1864), Rector of
Woodeaton,
Oxfordshire. They then relocated to
East Bergholt,
Suffolk.[1][2]
Clarke wrote numerous travel guides. She is best known for her later
botanical work popularizing microscopy.[3]
The Microscope: Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Subjects for Exhibition[8] was published in successive editions into the 1880s.
The Common Seaweeds of the British Coast and Channel Islands; with Some Insight into the Microscopic Beauties of Their Structure and Fructification[9]
References
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abColbert, Benjamin.
"Louisa Lane". British Travel Writing. University of Wolverhampton. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
^Lane Clark, L (1858). The microscope: being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition.
ISBN978-1314715385.
^Lane Clark, L (1865). The Common Seaweeds of the British Coast and Channel Islands: With Some Insight Into the Microscopic Beauties of Their Structure and Fructification. Frederick Warne and Co.
doi:
10.5962/bhl.title.134970.