Lydia Suckling

[3][1] Suckling's Masters' thesis was on plant ecology of the forests on the Port Hills, and she published a paper from this work in 1913.

[4] The paper was communicated on Suckling's behalf by zoologist Charles Chilton, who was the Chair of Biology at the College at the time.

[5] As was common for university-educated women in New Zealand at the time, Suckling entered teaching after completing her studies.

She was employed as a student assistant at Canterbury University College in 1910, and then taught at Napier Girls' High School from 1912 to 1915.

[8][9] In 2017, Suckling was selected to be profiled as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words" project.