Maria Isabel Hylton Scott

María Isabel Hylton Scott was born on August 16, 1889, in Córdoba, Argentina.[4] Hylton Scott attended the Normal School (Escuela Normal), receiving a teacher degree in 1908. She continued her study at the National University of La Plata, where she obtained the title of professor in Pedagogy and Related Sciences in 1911.[4] She studied under the guidance of Dr. Miguel Fernández and his wife, Dr. Katy Marcinowsky-Fernández who influenced her first scientific works.[3]

At the beginning of the World War I, she worked as an assistant in the Zoology laboratory at the Museo de La Plata in 1914.[3]

Later in 1916, Hylton Scott became the first women in Argentina to obtain a doctorate in Zoology. Her doctoral thesis was dedicated to the embryology of the viviparous freshwater fish, Fitzroyia lineata (now under Jenynsia, Characiformes: Jenynsüdae).[5]

She worked as a head of the Laboratory until 1924[4] and as a substitute professor from 1933 to 1946, returning to this position in 1955.[6] Her university activity was interrupted due to the unstable political situation in Argentina.[3]

She participated in some investigational trips, such as to Puerto Madryn in 1916[4] and to Santa Cruz in 1936 with her husband Max Birabén.[6]

María Isabel Hylton Scott's thesis

In 1954, Hylton Scott and her husband founded the scientific magazine "Neotropica - Notas Zoologicas Americanas", which they kept editing until 1976.[3] Until now Neotropica is indexed in Malacological Review.[3]

She retired at the age of 76 in 1965 and accompanied her husband to Buenos Aires, where he was designated Director of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales.[3] She continued her scientific studies in the field of zoology, publishing five new works from 1977 to 1984.[6]

In 1977, at the age of 88, she received an honorable medal on the 100th anniversary of the Museo de La Plata.[3] The same year she was named an Honorary Member of the Asociación Argentina de Ciencias Naturales.[3]

At the age of 100, Hylton Scott donated her personal collection of mollusks to the Museo de La Plata.[3]

Maria Isabel Hylton Scott died on 1 September 1990 in La Plata.[6] She was posthumously designated Honorary President of the 1st Latin American Congress on Malacology in Caracas in 1991.[3]

Mollusca Genera[1]

• Cochleornata 1975
• Hirtudiscus 1973
• Kuschelenia 1951
• Paracochlea 1967
• Pilsbrylia 1952
• Stephadiscus 1981
• Ulpia 1955

• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1918. Sobre el desarrollo intraovarial de Jenynsia lineata (Nota preliminar). Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina;
• SCOTT, BIRABEN, M.I.H. & MARCINOWSKY FERNANDEZ, K. 1921. Variaciones locales de caracteres especfficos de larvas de anfibios . Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1927. Sobre gemelos uniovulares de Fitzroyia lineata. Physis;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1928. Sobre el desarrollo intraovarial de Fitzroyia lineata (Ien.) Berg. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1934. Sobre el desarrollo embrionario de Ampullaria canaliculata. Revista del Museo de La Plata;
• BIRABIN, M. & HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1939. Observaciones sobre el pinguino Spheniscus magellanicus (J.R. Foster);
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1943. Sobre la organizacion de Ampullaria (Asolene) megastoma Sowerby. Notas del Museo de La Plata, Zoologia;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1945. Faunula malacologiea de Tilcara. Revista del Museo de La Plata (nueva serie), Zoologia
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1946. Hallazgo del genero Vertigo en la Argentina (Mol. Puim.). Notas del Museo de La Plata, Paleontologia;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1948. Moluscos del biotopo de Cerro Colorado (Salta). Acta Zoologica Lilloana;
• HYLTON SCOTT, M.I. 1948. Moluscos del noroeste argentino. Acta Zoologica Lilloana;