Catherine Drummond Smith

Catherine Drummond Smith (1888–30 June 1979) (also known as Catherine Drummond Cotton) was an Australian geologist and one of the first two female geology demonstrators employed by the University of Sydney in 1911.

Biography She was born about 1888 to William and Catherine Smith. In 1911, she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney and graduated with first-class honours and the University's medal in geology. That same year, she became one of the first two women hired by administrator Edgeworth David as demonstrators in the University's geology department. She remained in that post until she left in 1919.

On 25 August 1917, she married physiologist Frank Cotton at Hornsby, New South Wales, She had two sons.

She died on 30 June 1979 in New South Wales.

Works Cotton, Catherine Drummond Smith, Ludwig Leichhardt and the Great South Land (1938).