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"In 1953 Jennie Laura Symons Simpson was the president of TBC [Torrey Botanical Club]. Jennie Laura Symons was born in Waterloo, Canada. She earned all her post-high school degrees from McGill University, the B.A. in 1917, the M.S. in 1921, and the Ph. D. in 1925. In 1925 she married biochemist Dr. George Eric Simpson. She taught at the University of Toronto and Swarthmore College. In 1929 she came to Hunter College where she always carried a heavy teaching load. She was very interested in marine algae. She became a U.S. citizen in 1931. At the October 8, 1960 meeting of the TBC she showed slides of the seaweeds of the California coast and talked about the Torrey Pines. She retired in 1962 to Chula Vista, California."

nynjctbotany.org/tbshist/labwork.html More about the Torrey Botanical Society (its current name): www.torreybotanical.org/

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Kathleen May Crossley is mentioned in this collection of papers:

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. ARCHIVES. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5S 1A5 (contact: Harold Averill). Papers of Elizabeth Josephine Allin, 1905-1993. Professor of physics, University of Toronto, 1941-1972. Papers include correspondence, diaries, course notes, lecture notes, notes, manuscripts, publications and photoprints documenting the activities of Elizabeth Josephine Allin, Annie Theresa Read and Kathleen May Crossley as students, staff and faculty in the Department of Physics, University of Toronto. Included are course notes taken by Elizabeth Allin while a doctoral student at Cambridge University in the 1930s. 1910-1989. 1.32 meters.

I'm responding to the invitation to the community to assist. I can confirm that the photo is of Kathleen Crossley. She was my great aunt.

Title and description have been updated. Thanks for all your help! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

I'm intrigued with her watch, which looks like something I'd see in 2011.

They married in 1931. Josephine was Theodore's second wife; his first died in 1927. Theodore died on vacation in New Hampshire. Their son Theodore Shear Jr. is also an archaeologist, a professor at Princeton.