Margaret Evans Collection
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1965 - 1981
Biographical Note - Margaret Evans
Dr. Evans was born in Bath, England in 1891 and maintained her British citizenship. She was trained initially in social work and graduated from University of London with honors.
In 1914 she went to India for her health and lived there for five years. During that time, she taught at Calcutta, and one of her students was former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
During her work in Australia, she isolated an insect that had been causing destruction of cotton crops in northeastern Australia.
She returned to the United States in 1954, and that year and the next worked at Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Extent
.21 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Physical Location
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Margaret Evans Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu