Bertha Stoneman

Bertha Stoneman (August 18, 1866 – April 30, 1943) was an American-born South African botanist.

She was president of Huguenot College from 1921 to 1933, and founder of the South African Association of University Women.

Bertha Stoneman completed undergraduate and doctoral studies in botany at Cornell University in 1894 and 1896, respectively.

[4] She started Huguenot's herbarium developed its plant collection, and taught courses in psychology and logic as well as botany.

[5] In 1923 she founded the South African Federation of University Women, and served as its first president.

an illustration from Bertha Stoneman, Plants and their ways in South Africa (1915) (14773569171)