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Mary Agardh Pocock (1886-1977) - south African botanist. Graduated from London university into 1908, after which it returned to Southern Africa. From 1917 continued the formation at the Cambridge university, but since Cambridge did not at that time appropriate to doctoral degrees for women, her thesis was defended at the London university. Subsequently, living, mainly, in the Southern Africa, but for a long time working also in the USA, Pokok studied, in essence, algae. However, her expedition give new plants species, jet in 1925 she obtained the greatest reputation. Together with the africanist professional Dorothy [Blik] [Pokok] passed from April to October 1925, the dry season, in the territory of North Rhodesia (present Zambia) and Angola right through, after gathering about thousand of the specimen of local vegetation, among which, as it was explained in the course of further studies, they proved to be 12 earlier than not known to science. --Penarc (discusión) 18:39 11 jun 2008 (UTC)