Emily Mary Berridge

Emily Mary Berridge FLS (1872-1947) was an English palaeobotanist and bacteriologist. She was among the first group of women admitted to the Linnean Society.

Personal life Berridge was born in 1872 and educated at Dulwich High School, Kent. The headmistress, Miss Arnold, encouraged her ambitions for a career in science. She studied at the University of London, gaining B. Sc. in Physics from Bedford College in 1898 and subsequently studied natural sciences at Royal Holloway College, with an award of D. Sc.. Prior to her graduation she was also a research student at both University College (1906) and Imperial College (1910).

She died on 8 October 1947.

Publications Emily M. Berridge (1905) On two new specimens of Spencerites insignis. Annals of Botany 19 273-280 Emily M. Berridge (1909) Fertilization in Ephedra altissima. Annals of Botany 23 509-U105 Mary G Thoday (Sykes) and Emily M Berridge (1912) The Anatomy and Morphology of the inflorescences and flowers of Ephedra: With Plate LXXXV and twenty-one Figures in the Text. Annals of Botany 26 953–986 Emily M. Berridge (1914) The structure of the flower of Fagaceae, and its bearing on the affinities of the group. Annals of Botany 28 509-526 Emily M. Berridge and E. Glynn (1920) Observations on the classification of forty-eight strains of Flexner-Y and allied bacilli mainly by serological tests. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 23 199-216 SG Paine and Emily M. Berridge (1921) Studies in bacteriosis V Further investigation of a suggested bacteriolytic action in Proteacynaroides affected with the leaf-spot disease. Annals of Applied Biology 8 20-26 Emily M. Berridge (1924) The influence of hydrogen-ion concentration on the growth of certain bacterial plant parasites and saprophytes. Annals of Applied Biology 11 73-85 MM Mehta and Emily M. Berridge (1924) Studies in bacteriosis - XII. B. pyocyaneus as a cause of disease in lettuce and the identity of B. marginale with this organism. Annals of Applied Biology 11 318-323 Emily M. Berridge (1926) Studies in bacteriosis XIV Chemical agglutination as a means of differentiating bacterial species causing soft rot of potatoes and other vegetables. Annals of Applied Biology 13 12-18 Emily M. Berridge (1929) Studies in bacteriosis - XVI The agglutinating and plasmolytic action of the sap of the potato on various parasitic and sapro phytic species of bacteria. Annals of Applied Biology 16 567-577 Emily M. Berridge (1930) Studies in bacteriosis XVII Acidic relations between the Crown gall organism and its host. Annals of Applied Biology 17 280-283