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HowardA/B/1/1/9
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- 1913-01-02 (Creation)
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2 pages, paper
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She was born Gabrielle Louise Caroline Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. Gabrielle studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College 1895-99 and became a Fellow. She married Albert Howard in 1905. In 1913 she was appointed second imperial botanist to the government of India. With her husband, she established the Institute of Plant Industry at Indore in 1924. Published nearly 150 papers and monographs on agricultural and botanical subjects, mostly in collaboration with Albert Howard.
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Autograph letter, signed, written in pencil from the Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta. GEH has received official recognition in the New Year's Honours List of the five years' work she did before being paid. She suspects that this is due to Sir Robert Carlyle taking up her cause. She expresses gratitude to AH for insisting her name be on the papers for the work they did together, and to her mother for sending her to College.