sentences:  She lectured in both biology and parasitology and bore a heavy workload due to the periodic absence of the faculties professors .She became second-in-charge of the biology school when Thomas Sergeant Hall died in 1915, and served as November 1916 to March 1917 she was Australia's first female acting professor when Baldwin Spencer took leave.She was encouraged to apply to take his position permanently, but was not successful with the position going to W. E. Agar.