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Last Name Ball

Given Name Anne Elizabeth °

alt. Names A. E. B. ;

Marriage unmarried

Children

Year born 1808 Cobh (Queenstown), County Cork

Year died 1872

Place of death Dublin

Father's occupation tradesman Bob Stawell Ball (1785 c. -1841)

Relatives siblings: Bent ; Robert Ball (1802-1857) dir. Dublin Museum, geologist naturalist; Mary Ball (1812-98) zoologist entomologist

Education educated at home; natural history from father

Country of Activity Ireland

Worked for William Henry Harvey: Phyologia Britiannica (1846-51) ; James Mackay: Flora Hibernica ; William Thompson: Natural History of Ireland (1856, vol. 4) ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques botanical and entomological drawing

Sample(s)

Archival sources Herbaria at University College Cork; Royal/Irish National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin; Ulster Museum, Kew Gardens: Nat Hist Museum London

Published sources Harvey & Ogilvie: Biographical Dictionary Women in Science 1: 73 ; Haines: International Women in Science 2001: 15 ; M. A. Wilson: A. E. B. Irish Naturalists Journal 6, 8 1954: 213-15 ; Butler 2000: chapter 1 ;

other 1818 moved to Younghal, County Cork.

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