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Beryl Brewin
New Zealand zoologist

Beryl Brewin

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New Zealand zoologist
A.K.A.
Beryl Iris Brewin Beryl I. Brewin
Work field
Gender
Female
Birth
Place of birth
Whanganui, Whanganui District, Manawatū-Whanganui Region, New Zealand
Death
Place of death
Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand
Age
89 years
Education
University of Auckland
Auckland Region, New Zealand
Employers
University of Otago
Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
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Biography

Beryl Iris Brewin (10 September 1910 – 8 January 1999) was a New Zealand marine zoologist, specialising in ascidians (sea squirts).

Academic career

Brewin was born 10 September 1910 to parents Lucy and Frank Brewin. She graduated from Auckland University College in 1931 with a Bachelor of Science in botany and zoology. This was followed by an MSc in botany in 1933.

Brewin, described as a 'live wire', worked at the University of Otago Department of Zoology from 1936 to 1963. She had reached senior lecturer level when she retired.

Brewin submitted her Doctor of Science thesis, consisting of 18 papers published between 1942 and 1957 to the University of New Zealand in 1958. According to GBIF, she named more than 80 species or genera from New Zealand and Australia.

In 1954, Brewin was the second woman to be appointed to the Council of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, after her colleague Marion Fyfe, also from the Department of Zoology at Otago. Brewin served four years on the council.

Brewin retired in 1963, and left nearly half a million dollars to the University of Otago in 1999, for the purposes of providing more comfortable accommodation for marine researchers at the Portobello marine laboratory. She also bequeathed $1 million for the purchase of a research vessel, the 10 metres (33 ft) RV Beryl Brewin in her honour.

In 2017, Brewin 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.

Selected species named by Brewin

  • Leptoclinides marmoreus Brewin, 1956
  • Synoicum herdmani Brewin, 1956
  • Arnbackia novaezelandiae Brewin, 1950
  • Aplidium maritimum Brewin, 1958
  • Aplidium knoxi Brewin, 1956
  • Alloeocarpa minuta Brewin, 1951
  • Botryllus stewartensis Brewin, 1958
  • Pseudodistoma opacum Brewin, 1950
  • Pyura rugata Brewin, 1948
  • Aplidium benhami Brewin, 1946
  • Aplidium siphonum Brewin, 1956
  • Pyura carnea Brewin, 1948
  • Leptoclinides sluiteri Brewin, 1950
  • Ritterella sigillinoides Brewin, 1958
  • Aplidium powelli Brewin, 1958
  • Amaroucium maritimum Brewin, 1958
  • Distaplia taylori Brewin, 1950

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