[2] She continued to teach there part time, once she became a student of botany at the newly constituted The Queen's University of Belfast, from which graduated with honours in 1912, having won the Dunville Studentship.
In the early 1920s, with her husband as collaborator, she produced a textbook for primary schools, The National Programme of Rural Science or Nature Study, published by the Educational Company of Ireland.
[2] In October 1925, the couple jointly found the first confirmed record of the rare slime mold Diderma lucidum in Ireland, at Powerscourt Waterfall.
[2] In 1947 they found the first occurrence of the alpine myxomycete Lepidoderma carestianum in the British Isles, at Ben Lawers; the specimen was not identified until 1965.
[2] He recognised her knowledge, and in 1941 wrote:[6] That an ant not previously recorded from Ireland should enter the house of one of the few people in the country who would recognise it seems a very remote possibility, yet on the 17th September 1941, such a coincidence happened ... (bringing in the washing after a warm day) my wife found, wrapped in a handkerchief, a small winged hymenopteron, which on examination proved to be a female of the ant.Ponera punctatissima Roger.