Lebour, Marie (1877–1971)
Lebour, Marie (1877–1971)
English marine biologist. Name variations: Marie Victoire Lebour; M.V. Lebour. Born Marie Victoire Lebour, Aug 20, 1877, in Woodburn, Northumberland, England; died Oct 2, 1971; dau. of a professor of geology at Amstrong College, Newcastle upon-Tyne (died 1931); studied at Armstrong College; University of Durham, BS, 1904, MSc, 1907, DSc, 1917.
An expert on the larval stages of decapods (crabs), worked as a junior demonstrator (1906–08), demonstrator (1908–09) and assistant lecturer and demonstrator (1909–15) in the University of Leeds' Zoology Department; employed as a marine biologist at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) at Plymouth (1915–46); published over 40 papers on planktonic larvae of the decapods; documented and photographed the various stages of 33 of the 37 known larvae species in her area; as a fellow scientist of marine plankton specialists Walter Garstang and Robert Gurney, collected plankton on a trip to Bermuda on the Royal Society ship, Culver (1938–39); contributed to the Journal of the Marine Biological Association, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Naturalist (1900). Her work and research was transferred to London's Natural History Museum (2000). The Marie Lebour Library is in the special collection of Marine Biological Association in Plymouth.