Brown, Margaret Elizabeth (1918–)
Brown, Margaret Elizabeth (1918–)
English biologist. Name variations: Mrs. Varley. Born Margaret Elizabeth Brown, Sept 28, 1918, at Mussoorie, Punjab, India, where her father served in the colonial service; Girton College, Cambridge, MA, 1944, PhD, 1945; Oxford, MA, 1959; m. George Copley Varley (professor), 1955.
An expert on fish biology, worked at various educational and research institutions, including Girton College, University of Cambridge, East African Fisheries Research Organisation in Jinja, Uganda, University of Oxford, and Open University; collaborated with Winifred Frost on New Naturalist volume The Trout (1967); published British Freshwater Fishes: Factors Affecting Their Distribution (1967); served as vice president of Linnean Society (1982). Some of her works—including A Manuel of Practical Vertebrate Morphology (coauthor 1949) and Physiology of Fishes (ed., 1957)—were widely used as textbooks.