Maud Doria Haviland

Maud Doria Brindley née Haviland (10 February 1889 – 3 April 1941) was an English ornithologist, entomologist, explorer, lecturer, photographer and writer.

She conducted studies on bugs and also examined bird biology while at Cambridge and on her travels in Siberia, central Europe, and South America.

[1] She spent her youth growing on the estate of her step-father in south-east Ireland where she shot and observed birds in the wild.

Other members of the group included painter Dora Curtis and Henry Usher Hall of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

From 1919 to 1922 she continued to research insects and one of her works was in the examination of factors causing the production of winged morphs in aphids.

She married Harold Hulme Brindley, a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1922 and spent the next year in British Guiana examining bugs.