Zoologist with specialist research interest in parasitology. Graduated with a BSc in botany and zoology and and MSc in botany in 1941 from Canterbury University College. Married Russell Morris Allison (1915-1974). Allison was on the staff of the Department of Biology (later Department of Zoology) at Canterbury University College and University of Canterbury, retiring in 1980. Probably the "Bertha Nurse" who was one of the four young women who were the first women to cross the Whitcombe Pass in May 1937. (See photograph in Pascoe Album I, (PA1-o-406, p 42)).
Allison, Frances Rosalind Bertha, 1916-2010
Allison, Bertha, 1916-2010, Nurse, Bertha, 1916-2010, Nurse, Frances Rosalind Bertha, 1916-2010
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Pascoe album 1
Date: [Between 1914 and 1937]
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-406
Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers; and several scenes showing Canterbury Mountaineering Club annual sports days over a number of years. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [240 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm
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Pascoe album 2
Date: [Between 1929 and 1937]
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
By: Boot, Leonard William, 1908-1998; Honour, Walter Basil, 1897-1988; Snowden, Andrew Craig, 1897-1981; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949; Teague, Bernard Henry Norris, 1903-1982; Townsend, Maxwell Geith, 1911-1935; Wilson, Evan, active 1931-1964
Reference: PA1-o-407
Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps. They include views of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers. One sequence (pages 129-140) show aspects of the search for the body of Edgar Russell who died on Mount Avalanche in 1933. They show the location where he was lost on 30th July 1933, the search party, and the routes they took to search, finally succeeding on 6th August 1933. Pages 99-100, 83-84, and 105-106 show the building and completion of the Athur's Pass Canterbury Mountaineering Club mountain hut; page 87 has an indistinct view of the unveiling of the Arthur Dobson Memorial, on 18th April 1937 (5 km north of Arthur's Pass Village). Most of the photographs re fully described with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, including panoramas with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [224 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm
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Women scientists in physics, dentistry, periodontology and zoology
Date: [1993-2002]
From: Thomson, Andrew David, 1930-2002 : Papers relating to women in science in New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-7617-07
Description: Essays on women in the fields of physics, dentistry and periodontology and zoology; essay on Brewin includes newspaper clipping of her graduation Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Album (Adams-Herriott)
From: Thomson, Andrew David, 1930-2002 :Photographs relating to women in science in New Zealand
Reference: PA1-q-1057
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 245 x 310 mm