Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan

Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan (1886–1945) was an Australian zoologist. She is best known for her work on animal morphology, culminating in the book Elements of Animal Morphology. She was a lecturer, and then a senior lecturer, at the University of Melbourne from 1921 to 1944.

Early life Buchanan was born on 21 November 1886, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was the only child of Thomas Buchanan and Gwynneth Vaughan. Her father, Thomas Buchanan, was a banker. After her father's death in 1897, she moved to Melbourne to live with her mother. Her religious influences have Anglican origins. In August 1913, she moved to England, where she studied at University College, London. She received her D.Sc. at the University of Melbourne in April 1916.

Retirement and late life By 1935, Buchanan was already afflicted with arteriosclerosis and chronic nephritis, and that resulted in her taking a leave of absence in 1944 and subsequent retirement at the end of the year.