Selina Catherine Stow

Selina Catherine Stow (1870-18 August 1956) was a British botanist and the first female President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union.

Biography Stow was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her father, T. Stow, was a naturalist. Her primary interest was in botany and she regularly undertook fieldwork recording plants. In 1903 she recorded the grass Vulpia unilateralis as new Britain. She worked with fellow botanists W.W. Mason, A. Bennet, J. Britten, W.H. Beeby, F.A. Lees, and Canon Fowler in contributing to the first Checklist of Lincolnshire Plants, published in 1909 by E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock.

After the outbreak of the First World War, Stow served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment providing nursing care at Grantham.

Publications Stow, C.S. 1913. "Lincolnshire Galled Plants", Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalist's Union for 1912-1915, 32–33. Stow, C.S. 1915. "Presidential Address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union for 1914", Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalist's Union for 1912-1915, 153–164.