Maria Isabel Hylton Scott
María Isabel Hylton Scott | |
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| Born | August 16, 1889 Córdoba, Argentina |
| Died | September 1, 1990 (aged 101) La Plata, Argentina |
| Known for | described 1 family, 47 species and 4 subspecies of Mollusca |
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| Fields | zoology, malacology |
María Isabel Sofia Hylton Scott y Pacheco (16 August 1889, Córdoba, Argentina – 1 September 1990, La Plata, Argentina)[1] was an Argentine zoologist, malacologist and teacher.[2] She is known as the first woman in Argentina who obtained a doctorate in Zoology.[3] She described at least 1 family, 47 species and 4 subspecies of Mollusca.[1]
Life
María Isabel Hylton Scott was born on August 16, 1889, in Córdoba, Argentina.[4] Hylton Scott attended the Normal School (Escuela Normal), receiving a teacher degree in 1908. She continued her study at the National University of La Plata, where she obtained the title of professor in Pedagogy and Related Sciences in 1911.[4] She studied under the guidance of Dr. Miguel Fernández and his wife, Dr. Katy Marcinowsky-Fernández who influenced her first scientific works.[3]
At the beginning of the World War I, she worked as an assistant in the Zoology laboratory at the Museo de La Plata in 1914.[3]
Later in 1916, Hylton Scott became the first woman in Argentina to obtain a doctorate in Zoology. Her doctoral thesis was dedicated to the embryology of the viviparous freshwater fish, Fitzroyia lineata (now under Jenynsia, Characiformes: Jenynsüdae).[5]
She worked as a head of the Laboratory until 1924[4] and as a substitute professor from 1933 to 1946, returning to this position in 1955.[6] Her university activity was interrupted due to the unstable political situation in Argentina.[3]
She participated in some investigational trips, such as to Puerto Madryn in 1916[4] and to Santa Cruz in 1936 with her husband Max Birabén.[6]
In 1954, Hylton Scott and her husband founded the scientific magazine "Neotropica - Notas Zoologicas Americanas", which they kept editing until 1976.[3] Until now Neotropica is indexed in Malacological Review.[3]
She retired at the age of 76 in 1965 and accompanied her husband to Buenos Aires, where he was designated Director of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales.[3] She continued her scientific studies in the field of zoology, publishing five new works from 1977 to 1984.[6]
In 1977, at the age of 88, she received an honorable medal on the 100th anniversary of the Museo de La Plata.[3] The same year she was named an Honorary Member of the Asociación Argentina de Ciencias Naturales.[3]
At the age of 100, Hylton Scott donated her personal collection of mollusks to the Museo de La Plata.[3]
Maria Isabel Hylton Scott died on 1 September 1990 in La Plata.[6] She was posthumously designated Honorary President of the 1st Latin American Congress on Malacology in Caracas in 1991.[3]
List of described specimens
Mollusca Genera[1]
- Cochleornata 1975
- Hirtudiscus 1973
- Kuschelenia 1951
- Paracochlea 1967
- Pilsbrylia 1952
- Stephadiscus 1981
- Ulpia 1955
List of publications (selection)
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1918. Sobre el desarrollo intraovarial de Jenynsia lineata (Nota preliminar). Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina;
- SCOTT, BIRABEN, M.I.H. & MARCINOWSKY FERNANDEZ, K. 1921. Variaciones locales de caracteres especfficos de larvas de anfibios . Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1927. Sobre gemelos uniovulares de Fitzroyia lineata. Physis;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1928. Sobre el desarrollo intraovarial de Fitzroyia lineata (Ien.) Berg. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1934. Sobre el desarrollo embrionario de Ampullaria canaliculata. Revista del Museo de La Plata;
- BIRABIN, M. & HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1939. Observaciones sobre el pinguino Spheniscus magellanicus (J.R. Foster);
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1943. Sobre la organizacion de Ampullaria (Asolene) megastoma Sowerby. Notas del Museo de La Plata, Zoologia;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1945. Faunula malacologiea de Tilcara. Revista del Museo de La Plata (nueva serie), Zoologia
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1946. Hallazgo del genero Vertigo en la Argentina (Mol. Puim.). Notas del Museo de La Plata, Paleontologia;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1948. Moluscos del biotopo de Cerro Colorado (Salta). Acta Zoologica Lilloana;
- HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1948. Moluscos del noroeste argentino. Acta Zoologica Lilloana;
References
- 1 2 3 "Max Birabén & Maria Isabel - NeglectedScience". www.neglectedscience.com. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ Miquel, Sergio E.; Jaime, Giselle L. (October 2018). "Subulinidae snails from northern Argentina with description of a new species of Nannobeliscus Weyrauch" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 López, Hugo L.; Cazzaniga, Néstor J.; Ponte Gómez, Justina (2010). Ictiólogos de la Argentina, María Isabel Hylton Scott (PDF). p. 19. ISSN 1515-9329.
- 1 2 3 4 García, Susana V. (December 2006). "Ni solas ni resignadas: la participación femenina en las actividades científico-académicas de la Argentina en los inicios del siglo XX". Cadernos Pagu (in Spanish) (27): 133–172. doi:10.1590/S0104-83332006000200007. ISSN 0104-8333.
- ↑ Hylton Scott, María Isabel (1928). Fitzroyia Lineata (Jen.) Berg (PDF).
- 1 2 3 4 "Ictiólogos de la Argentina: María Isabel Hylton Scott". 1library.co. Retrieved 2020-05-13.