Gladys Le Mare née Keay graduated with first class honours in zoology from St Hugh's College Oxford. She taught in South Africa until 1939 when she left for Singapore to marry Deryck Watts Le Mare (1912-1967), then Asst Director of Fisheries, Straits Settlements

Straits Settlements

The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on 1 April 1867...

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In 1940, Gladys became one of the founders Malaysian Nature Society

Malaysian Nature Society

Malaysian Nature Society is the oldest and one of the most prominent environmental not for profit, non-governmental organizations in Malaysia. It was first established, as the Malayan Nature Society, with the launch of the Malayan Nature Journal, in 1940...

 and the founding editor of the Malayan Nature Journal

Malayan Nature Journal

The Malayan Nature Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was first published in 1940 by the Malaysian Nature Society. The first editor was Gladys Le Mare....

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Works (selected)

• "Research on the seasonal occurrence of harvest mites (Trombicula autumnalis) on voles and mice near Oxford", in: Parasitology, 28, 110-114, 1936
• "The ecology of the harvest mite in the British Isles", in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 6, 23-35, 1937.