Rose Bracher

Bracher studied Euglena

Rose Bracher (1894 - 15 July 1941) was a British botanist and academic. She researched the ecology of the mud flats of the River Avon at Bristol and in particular the genus Euglena.

Bracher was born in Salisbury and obtained a B.Sc. in 1917, followed by an M.Sc. in 1918 and a Ph.D. in 1927, all from the University of Bristol. She worked as a demonstrator at the London School of Medicine for Women (1918-1920), was a lecturer at the East London College (1921-1924), and took up a post of lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1924 which she held until her death in 1941. Obituaries for Bracher were published in Nature and the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.

She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1938.

In 1940 she was given the title of Senior Lecturer and in 1941 was the first non-professorial woman to be elected to the Senate of the University, a month before her sudden death.

The University of Bristol offers an annual prize in her memory, the Rose Bracher Memorial Prize for the best student in botany, zoology and biology.

Selected publications

• Ecology in Town and Classroom J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1937
• A Book of Common Flowers, illustrated by Dorothy Bromby; Oxford University Press, 1941
• Bracher, Rose (February 1929). "The Ecology of the Avon Banks at Bristol". Journal of Ecology. 17 (1): 35–81. JSTOR 2255913.
• Bracher, Rose (July 1937). "The light relations of Euglena limosa Gard.—Part I. The influence of intensity and quality of light on phototaxy". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 51 (337): 23–42. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1937.tb01902.x.

Further reading

• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexikon der Naturwissenschaftlerinnen und naturkundigen Frauen Europas. Verlag Harri Deutsch 1998, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9, page 53.