Amy Hodgson
{{Short description|New Zealand botanist (1888–1983)}}
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| birth_place = Havelock North, New Zealand
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| death_place = Hastings, New Zealand
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Eliza Amy Hodgson ({{née}} Campbell, 10 October 1888 – 7 January 1983) was a New Zealand botanist who specialised in liverworts.
Early life
Hodgson was born in Havelock North and attended Pukahu Primary School and Napier Girls' High School.{{Cite book|title=Common Ground: Who's Who in New Zealand botanical names.|last=Smith|first=Val|publisher=Wordsmith|year=2015|isbn=9780473308476|location=New Zealand|pages=204}} She went by her middle name Amy. Hodgson was self-educated in botany as her father refused to allow her to attend university.
Botany work
Hodgson collected numerous specimens and was encouraged by George Osborne King Sainsbury with whom she collected.{{Cite journal|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/history/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000324784|title=Hodgson, Eliza Amy (c. 1889-1983)|website=plants.jstor.org|access-date=2019-02-12}} Hodgson also collected with Kenneth Willway Allison. Between 1931 and 1936 she issued three exsiccatae, one of them together with Sainsbury and Allison.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. Hodgson published her first scientific paper at the age of 42 and went on to publish more than 30 papers thereafter.{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h26/hodgson-eliza-amy|title=Hodgson, Eliza Amy|last=Axford|first=C. Joy|date=2000|website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New England|access-date=2017-10-10}} She described two new species of liverworts and nine new genera. The liverwort Lejeunea hodgsoniana was named in her honourLewington, R.J.; Beveridge, P.; Renner, M.A.M. 2013: Lejeunea hodgsoniana, a newly described, long recognised Lejeunea (Jungermanniopsida, Lejeuneaceae) from lowland coastal forest habitats in New Zealand. PhytoKeys, 29: 1-15. {{doi|10.3897/phytokeys.29.5376}} as was the species Lepidolaena hodgsoniae.
Her herbarium was donated to Massey University in 1972.
Recognition
She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and in 1961 was accorded the same honour by the Royal Society of New Zealand.{{DNZB|title=Eliza Amy Hodgson|first= C. Joy|last= Axford|id=5h26|access-date=23 April 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1918-1967/eliza-amy-hodgson/|title=Eliza Amy Hodgson|website=royalsociety.org.nz|access-date=2019-02-12}} Hodgson was also an honorary member of the British Bryological Society.
Hodgson was awarded an honorary doctorate by Massey University in 1976.
In 2017, Hodges was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.
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Category:20th-century New Zealand botanists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Category:20th-century New Zealand women scientists
Category:Massey University alumni
Category:Members of the British Bryological Society
Category:New Zealand women botanists