Winsome Fanny Barker

Winsome Fanny Barker (n'ụbọchị ịrị abụọ na atọ n'ọnwa Septemba n'afọ 1907 - n'ụbọchị ịrị abụọ na asaa n'ọnwa Disemba n'afọ 1994) bụ onye South Africa na-akọ ahịhịa na onye na-anakọta osisi, a maara ya maka ọrụ ya dịka onye na-ahụ maka iwulite nchịkọta ahụ na herbarium nke Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, yana nyocha ya na Amaryllidaceae, Liliaceae na Haemodoracea.

## Akụkọ ndụ
A mụrụ Barker na Jamestown, Cape Colony nye Joseph Barker (onye Seaham, County Durham) na nwunye ya Beatrice (onye a mụrụ Cusens). Ezinụlọ ahụ kwagara East London ebe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na East London Girls High School. Barker gara n'ihu gụchaa BSc na nkà mmụta ihe ọkụkụ na anụmanụ na Rhodes University College na 1928. Onye Suid-Afrikaanse Academy nke Wetenskap en Kuns nyere ya ihe nrite Junior Captain Scott na isiokwu abụọ ahụ ebe ọ nwetara akara kachasị elu na klaasị ya. E nyere ya ohere agụmakwụkwọ iji mezue MSc na nkà mmụta ihe ọkụkụ mana ọ jụrụ ịnakwere agụmakwụkwọ Edward Muspratt Solly.nke Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden nyere, malite n'afọ 1929. 

N'ime afọ abụọ ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ, H.M.L. Bolus lekọtara Barker n'ọmụmụ ihe ya gụnyere nhazi osisi, nlekọta osisi na ọrụ ubi. O tinyere oge site n'ọnwa Febụwarị n'afọ 1931 ruo n'ọnwa Julaị n'afọ 1933 na Kew Gardens iji gbasaa ahụmịhe osisi ya. Ọ laghachiri Kirstenbosch n'afọ 1933 ma họpụta ya dịka Onye Inyeaka Osisi Botanical nye Onyeisi na-arụ ọrụ na Bolus Herbarium, ruo mgbe e kwetara ịkwaga ya na Mahadum Cape Town n'afọ 1934 (nkwagharị ahụ mere naanị na 1938). N'afọ 1935 Barker malitere ịchịkọta ihe atụ maka ụlọ ọgwụ herbarium nkeonwe maka Kirstenbosch, ọ bụ ezie na ndị nlekọta nke National Botanic Gardens kpebiri naanị ịmepụta herbarium afọ anọ ka e mesịrị n'afọ 1939 mgbe Bolus herbarium kwagara. Mmefu ego mbụ kwa afọ nke herbarium bụ £350 maka ụgwọ ọnwa na akụrụngwa. A họpụtara Barker ka ọ bụrụ onyeisi nke herbarium n'afọ 1940. Mgbe ọ lara ezumike nka, herbarium ahụ nwere ihe karịrị mpempe akwụkwọ 110,000, nke ọ bụla n'ime ha ka o lere anya nke ọma..

N'afọ 1956, e wegara herbarium nke South African Museum, nke nwere mpempe akwụkwọ 100000, na Kirstenbosch na mgbazinye ego na-adịgide adịgide. N'ime nke a, onye nlekọta herbarium nke SA Museum, Dr Joyce Lewis na onye na-enyere ya aka wegara Kirstenbosch. Iji nabata ha, a họpụtara Lewis dị ka onye nyocha ebe a họpụtara Barker dị ka onye nlekọta, ọkwá ọ nọ na ya ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká n'afọ 1972. 

Barker bụkwa onye na-ese ihe osise botanical. E bipụtara iri atọ na ise n'ime ihe osise ya na Flowering Plants of South Africa n'etiti afọ 1930 n'afọ 1938, Royal Horticultural Society na London nwere ihe osise mmiri ya nke *Agapanthus*. Compton Herbarium na Kirstenbosch nwere ihe oyiyi 107 nke *Lachenalia* nke Barker sere n'etiti 1930 na afọ 1950. 

Barker tinyekwara aka na ọzụzụ nke Edward Muspratt Solly Scholars. 

## Aha ndị yiri ya
A na-echeta Barker na aha ọtụtụ osisi South Africa, gụnyere Leucadendron barkerae I. Williams, *Haemanthus barkerae* Snijman, *Lachenalia barkeriana* U. Mull. -Doblies, na *Romulea barkerae* M.P. de Vos. Ọ kọwara ma ọ dịkarịa ala ụdị 50.

A na-akpọ *Acrostemon barkerae* Compton, *Conophytum barkerae* L. Bolus na Othonna barkerae Kompton iji sọpụrụ ya.

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