Emily Dix

Emily Dix (21 May 1904 – 31 December 1972) was a British palaeobotanist, specialising in the fossil flora of the Coal Measures.

Education She was born into a farming family living at Llanrhidian on the Gower Peninsula. At 18 she won a scholarship to University College Swansea where she graduated in 1925 with a first class honours degree in geology. She then went on to study with Arthur Trueman at Swansea, with whom she worked for the next five years on various projects. T. Neville George worked with her on the Coal Measures. She was awarded an M. Sc. in 1926 for work on paleontology in the Coal Measures of the Gwendraeth Valley in South Wales and a DSc.doctorate from the University of Wales in 1933 for a thesis about correlation of coal seams in South Wales. Her research was supported by grants from the government because of its importance to the coal industry. She was then transferred to St David's Hospital Carmarthen where she remained until her death.

Legacy Most of her fossils survived and her collection is now divided between the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, the Amgueddfa Cymru in Cardiff, and the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge.

Selected publications She published 40 articles and notes. They included:

Dix, E. (1934) The sequence of floras in the Upper Carboniferous with special reference to South Wales. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. volume 57, pp 789. Dix, Emily (1932) On a sporocarp probably attached to a frond of Neuropteris schlehani, Stur. Annals of Botany, Volume 46, Issue 4, 1 October 1932, Pages 1064–1067 Dix, E. (1931) The flora of the upper part of the Coal Measures of North Staffordshire. Quarterley J. Geological Society, volume 87, 160 - 179. Davies, D. F., Dix, E. and Truhman, A. F. (1928) Boreholes in the Cwmgorse Valley. Proc. South Wales Inst. Eng., vol. xliv, pages 37. Dix, Emily (1928) Seeds associated with Linopteris munsteri, Eichwald. Annals of Botany, Volume 42, Issue 4, 1 October 1928, Pages 1019–1024