Igerna Sollas [SEP] father
at Devon, the daughter of geologist William Johnson Sollas and his first wife Helen. She received an early education at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, and then attended Newnham College, Cambridge on a Gilchrist scholarship in 1897, where she took first class honours in both part I and part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos exam, completing a zoology degree in 1901. She held the position of lecturer in zoology at Newnham from 1903 to 1913, save for the period 1904 to 1906 when she was a Newnham college research fellow
Igerna Sollas
Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas (1877–1965), also known as Hilda Sollas, was a British zoologist and geologist, and lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. She had wide interests, studying marine organisms, genetics, and palaeontology. She was a collaborator with Cambridge geneticist William Bateson. An alumna of Alexandra College, Dublin, she was recognized as a role model for women in higher education in Ireland and England.
Early life and education.
Igerna Sollas was born 16 March 1877 in the town of Dawlish