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Greene was born in Victoria, Australia, on 23 December 1861. In 1895, she married [[William Lamond Allardyce]], and moved to [[Fiji]], where Allardyce was a commissioner. In 1904, they moved to the Falkland islands when Allardyce took up the post of [[Governor]]. On the Falkland islands, Greene took a keen interest in natural history and, after the discovery of some fossils on Pebble island, Greene gathered a comprehensive collection of fossils of [[Devonian]] age. She shared these, and held extensive correspondence with, academic geologists [[John Mason Clarke|John Clarke]] in the United States, and Ernest Schwarz in South Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Death of Lady Allardyce|first=John M.|last=Clarke|journal=Science|year=1919|volume=50|pages=585|doi=10.1126/science.50.1304.585.a}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Stone|first=Phil|year=2009|title=Mrs Allardyce and the trilobite|journal=Falkland Islands Journal|volume=9|pages=9-16.|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8815/}}</ref> |
Greene was born in Victoria, Australia, on 23 December 1861. In 1895, she married [[William Lamond Allardyce]], and moved to [[Fiji]], where Allardyce was a commissioner. In 1904, they moved to the Falkland islands when Allardyce took up the post of [[Governor]]. On the Falkland islands, Greene took a keen interest in natural history and, after the discovery of some fossils on Pebble island, Greene gathered a comprehensive collection of fossils of [[Devonian]] age. She shared these, and held extensive correspondence with, academic geologists [[John Mason Clarke|John Clarke]] in the United States, and Ernest Schwarz in South Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Death of Lady Allardyce|first=John M.|last=Clarke|journal=Science|year=1919|volume=50|pages=585|doi=10.1126/science.50.1304.585.a}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Stone|first=Phil|year=2009|title=Mrs Allardyce and the trilobite|journal=Falkland Islands Journal|volume=9|pages=9-16.|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8815/}}</ref> |
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Australian palaeontologist
Constance Angell Greene, Lady Allardyce OBE was a natural historian, who became known for her collection of fossils from the Devonian of the Falkland islands. These played an important role in attempts by geologists to reconstruct the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea. She also created a museum in Port Stanley to illustrate the geology, fauna and flora of the Falkland islands. A trilobite, Metacryphaeus allardyceae, was named in her honour.
Greene was born in Victoria, Australia, on 23 December 1861. In 1895, she married William Lamond Allardyce, and moved to Fiji, where Allardyce was a commissioner. In 1904, they moved to the Falkland islands when Allardyce took up the post of Governor. On the Falkland islands, Greene took a keen interest in natural history and, after the discovery of some fossils on Pebble island, Greene gathered a comprehensive collection of fossils of Devonian age. She shared these, and held extensive correspondence with, academic geologists John Clarke in the United States, and Ernest Schwarz in South Africa.[1][2]
