I think I must have searched \u201cFrank Debenham\u201d to land there (likely thing for me to do). At the time the item was not digitized so I emailed Sydney\u2019s archive asking for scans of the pages \u201cdepicting\/contributed by Debenham and Priestley\u201d as I put it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To my delight I received two pages from the geology camp scrapbook, depicting \u201cHope\u201d (Deb) and \u201cCarlo\u201d (Priestley). The pages were scrawled over with in-jokes, song lyrics, doodles: the camps, full of young university students, must have been something like a modern-day summer abroad program or a spring break excursion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Armed with adequate biographical background detail about the two lads in question, I felt I was at least partially in on the jokes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey say he is not old enough \/ to kiss the girls but he\u2019s not far off \/ Has anybody here seen Priestley \/ with his Cupid\u2019s mouth\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is funny because the young Priestley, before he left on the Nimrod <\/em>expedition in 1909, was brought up in a sheltered Methodist family, and even after being \u201cbroken in\u201d in Antarctica seems to still have been giving off a distinctly virginal air.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe is so dashing dark and bold \/ he leaves his meals till they are cold \/ Has anybody here seen Debby \/ Our only third year man\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is funny because even on the Terra Nova expedition (still in the future when this was written) Deb was roundly mocked by his sledgemates for having to cool his hot hoosh in the snow, and even then taking forever to finish it. The drawings of pipes and cigarettes, decorating the page, I recognized as A) being Deb\u2019s handiwork and B) a reference to his own chainsmoking tendencies, very much to the fore on the expedition as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The scrapbook was from the collection of one Fanny Cohen\u2014and this obviously interested me. A Jewish woman! Clearly she had known Deb and Priestley, and been at this delightful geology camp with them, which was very exciting. But beyond what general detail<\/a> I could find about her life online, there was nothing else to go on regarding her association with the Antarctics\u2014nor any pictures of her as she might have looked at the 1910 camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My interest in Fanny was piqued further when I visited the Scott Polar Research Institute in May of 2024 and read previously unseen sections of Debenham\u2019s diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On June 19th, 1911, in the depths of Antarctic winter, he wrote: <\/p>\n\n\n\n At work all day examining and labelling specimens. It is a curious tho\u2019 well known fact that specimens generally look much better in the field than when in hand specimens at home. Still I think I have got a very good variety tho\u2019 they are augite (not aegirine) xtals which I got from Observation Hill which were not obtained by Ferrar. Some of them are very perfect and I am forced to wonder whether Miss Cohen B.H. B.Sc. Lecturer in Crystallography at the University of Sydney will take as much trouble over them as she did over Thomson\u2019s xtals from here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n \u201cThomson\u201d was J. Allan Thomson, a New Zealander and a Rhodes Scholar who had been originally hired as geologist by Scott but was unable to go on the expedition due to a diagnosis of tuberculosis. He had presumably been assisting Professor “Prof” T. W. Edgeworth “Tweddy” David on analyzing Antarctic rock samples from the Nimrod <\/em>expedition. I couldn\u2019t quite get my head around Deb\u2019s tone here when I first transcribed this passage\u2026 but that would change…\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In February of this year my friend Branwell alerted me that an entire geology camp scrapbook had recently been digitized and was available on the University of Sydney archive website<\/a>. We had hit the motherlode of Fanny content\u2014in addition to a large vein of Deb, Priestley, and their geology friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prof was known for running large-scale student geological excursions\u2014kind of like student science summer camps. He was also known for being the first professor to hire women as academic staff at the University of Sydney. Fanny was hired as the second-ever female junior demonstrator (roughly equivalent to a TA) in 1909, paid the same amount as equivalent male staff. In 1910 she was a main player in a friendly co-ed clique of graduate student staff during a heavily documented geology camp at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley region.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to the incredibly speedy and nimble (and FREE) digitization staff at Sydney, we were soon in possession of nearly the entirety of the photography in Fanny\u2019s collection\u2014in addition to the album Branwell had first found, which had been put together by another member of the clique, Arthur B. Walkom, known as \u201cWalky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor David was apparently not present at the camp. This page in Fanny\u2019s scrapbook with art by Deb references the Prof\u2019s adventure on the Nimrod expedition.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Much like on an Antarctic expedition, everyone was given nicknames. Deb was \u201cHope\u201d (part of a trio with \u201cFaith\u201d and \u201cCharity,\u201d Andrew D. Watson<\/a> and Edward A. Briggs respectively), Dr. Charles Anderson was \u201cRanzo\u201d (a reference to the sea shanty), Priestley was \u201cCarlo,\u201d Catherine D. Smith was \u201cBright Eyes,\u201d and Fanny Cohen was \u201cMinnehaha\u201d \u2014 the name of the love interest in Longfellow\u2019s Song of Hiawatha, <\/em>and also possibly a reference to Fanny\u2019s loud and recognizable laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Left version from Walkom\u2019s scrapbook, right from Fanny\u2019s own \u2014\u00a0unclear who has drawn the captions\/hearts\/cat.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The students and researchers spent their week in the wild surveying with plane-tables, examining rock faces, collecting samples, and practicing their sketching. At night they would gather around the campfire and make up parodies of popular songs of the day, which were all extensively recorded in the scrapbooks in the Sydney collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many campers were recipients of personalized verses of \u201cHas Anybody Here Seen Kelly,\u201d<\/a> popularized by Florrie Forde in 1908\u2014as seen above with Deb and Priestley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fanny\u2019s verses went thusly: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em> Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em> She and fellow grad student Catherine Drummond Smith were referred to collectively as the P.P. (variously: Pampered Pair, Perfect Pests, Pilfering Pirates) and they both appear frequently in the scrapbooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Deb (Hope) with Faith and Charity (the three graces) and the P.P.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPampered Pair\u201d verses about Fanny and Catherine \u2014 signed F.D. (Frank Debenham) on the version in Fanny\u2019s scrapbook, and the illustration is by him too<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n plus:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve often said to myself I\u2019ve said\u00a0<\/em> Fanny was perhaps a bit of a flirt, and based on these poems\/parodies, certainly looked upon as a catch\u2014it was taken as a given that she would marry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geologist J. Allan Thomson was married, and Fanny\u2019s scrapbook features pictures of his newborn daughter Margaret (who grew up to be a renowned New Zealand filmmaker<\/a>). Yet Thomson himself wrote a few verses about Fanny which come off as rather flirtatious.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fanny and Margaret<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Song parody re: Fanny on the left, Catherine on the right\u00a0<\/em> Song (unattributed)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s to our Demon<\/em> *(Demon = Demonstrator)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fanny’s caption below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou look into my eyes & I\u2019ll look into yours.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> It seems that Deb also liked Fanny very much\u2014his one reference to her in his diary, where she\u2019d never see it, and where he could safely assume nobody who\u2019d read it in the future would know who he was talking about, seems to be that of envy of her attentions towards Thomson (or rather his rocks, but these are geologists we\u2019re talking about so same thing).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Decoding 100-year-old in-jokes is fun. Deb on the left refers to a faux pas he committed against the P.P., and below it refers to Fanny\u2019s \u201cugly mug\u201d \u2014 a double entendre re: the mug she\u2019s holding and protesting too much about how pretty she is, I daresay. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Three Graces and their domicile<\/em> Deb wrote \u201cThe Raison D\u2019etre\u201d above Fanny\u2019s portrait in her scrapbook, and has a few poems referring to her as \u201cThe Lady Dem\u201d with a sense of awe\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n This poem in Deb\u2019s handwriting about Fanny seems to be mocking her imposing nature and her weight (10 stone 8 pounds is 148 lbs, but fwiw she was noted to be tall).\u00a0<\/em> A very flattering geological poem by Deb (or at the very least in his handwriting with his illustrations) about Fanny and her area of expertise. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bottom caption in Deb\u2019s handwriting<\/em> Another \u201clady dem\u201d poem by Deb with mocking references to Fanny\u2019s weight.\u00a0<\/em> The grad\/post-grad clique<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The collaborative nature of the scrapbook labeled as Fanny\u2019s is revealed by Priestley and Deb\u2019s handwriting appearing amongs the entries (\u201cI object to being called a local bullock team\u201d \u2014 Priestley) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Leo Cotton, a Sydney geologist who had traveled on the Nimrod but not as part of the shore party, was not at the Pokolbin camp but was given a look in in the scrapbooks as someone who \u201cgives cheek to the lady dem\u201d aka Fanny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So\u2014in conclusion\u2014Debenham, Cotton, and the married Thomson seemed to all demonstrate interest in Fanny.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learning about this extremely grad-school-coded situation helped shed some light on a very mysterious reference I had come across much earlier, in Griff Taylor\u2019s midwinter diary of 1911. He wrote: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Deb always uses Dorothy\u2019s flag. Tho I knew he had another. But it is much larger than the<\/em> others and more personal \u2013 so he has not exhibited it before. Union Jack & Shields as in D\u2019s effort But blue of brighter colors \u2013 which is not really so correct. Also ice on 2 skis, tho\u2019 Charlie called it Skull & Crossbones. His Birthday and initials. I noticed an extra C in the latter & can<\/em> shrewdly guess who made the flag \u2013 (which is well sewn) \u2013 but I lied nobly in support of his<\/em> hint that C meant Cleveland \u2013 a family name [\u201ctrue\u201d added in red pencil above Cleveland].<\/em> (He wrote his name F C Deb on my Menu Q.V.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Griff had met Fanny during the short period when he was in Australia, after coming back from Cambridge but before departing for the expedition\u2014he is pictured in this 1910 group portrait of Professor David\u2019s geology graduate students, right next to Fanny and Priestley, with Deb and Catherine Smith on the other side of the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If that picture was taken in early September 1910 after the eventful camp at Pokolbin, the ever-observant Griff might well have been privy to Deb\u2019s continued attempts at flirting with Fanny. It seems like the \u201cF.C.D.\u201d on the flag twigged to him as some kind of sneaky reference to \u201cFanny Cohen (Debenham)\u201d and I can only imagine how red Deb\u2019s face got at the insinuation and Griff\u2019s repeated refusal to believe that C stood for Cleveland, his middle name\u2014which it really was. <\/em>(It\u2019s unclear if Fanny did <\/em>actually make the flag for him\u2014my guess is that she didn\u2019t. It was probably his mother?!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is another reference illuminated by the Deb-Fanny relationship which I may well be the first person to discover since it was put down in the historical record. I was revisiting the narrative of the 1911 Second Western Journey and realizing Debenham and Taylor named glaciers and mountains and geological features in the Granite Harbour region after lots of people they knew, including a Mt. Allan Thomson. If there was a mountain named after Thomson, then perhaps\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Into the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica<\/a> I typed \u201cfanny cohen\u201d \u2014 no dice. \u201cCohen\u201d results were unrelated. But what about \u201cMinnehaha\u201d ? <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Minnehaha Icefalls.<\/em><\/a> <\/em>A small, heavily crevassed icefall descending the steep west slopes of Mount England and forming a southern tributary to New Glacier, close west of its terminus at Granite Harbor, Victoria Land. Charted and named by a party of the BrAE (1910-13) led by Taylor. The name was suggested by Frank Debenham.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ding ding ding! <\/p>\n\n\n\n No notes were left as to why <\/em>Debenham had suggested such an odd name\u2014but I knew!!!! The ice-falls in question were quite close to their base camp at Cape Geology and Deb was responsible for surveying the area with his plane table. I wonder if he had had the nerve to suggest the name to Griff for inclusion in the final maps or if he just went ahead and chose it of his own volition. If he\u2019d suggested it to Griff, there\u2019s no reason Griff would have known who it referred to, as he wasn\u2019t at the camp. Deb might have made up a silly excuse or story to evade Griff\u2019s suspicion\u2026 but either way, thanks to his choice, Fanny Cohen\u2014who was never even under consideration to replace Thomson, despite her academic and geological bona fides being far beyond Priestley\u2019s or Debenham\u2019s\u2014was immortalized in the Antarctic landscape forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debenham and Priestley and the rest of the men at Pokolbin went on to great adventures, grand careers\u2014even poor tubercular Thomson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But what happened to Fanny? <\/p>\n\n\n\n My favorite photo of myself – Isn’t the smile a dream? <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In addition to her University Medal for Geology and her John Coutts scholarship for mathematical studies in optical and physical crystallography, she was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Barker graduate scholarship in mathematics and was able to travel to Cambridge to continue her study of mathematics in 1911.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n But as an unmarried woman she had to be accompanied by a chaperone: in this case her mother, who became ill less than a year later and Fanny had to unceremoniously depart Cambridge, cutting her studies short, in order to go home to Sydney with her mother. She completed her studies back at the University of Sydney and graduated M.A. in 1913 with a thesis titled ‘The application of spherical trigonometry to crystallography’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before graduating she had already begun her career in teaching. She became assistant mistress of mathematics at Fort Street Girls’ High School when she returned from England in 1912, and left in 1922 after some years as mathematics mistress. In the mid 1920s she was deputy headmistress and then headmistress of various other girl\u2019s schools in the area and returned to Fort Street as headmistress there in 1930, in which position she remained until retirement in 1952, enforced by reason of her age.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n One former student remembered on the occasion of her retirement: \u201cI can recall sitting in her class, lost in admiration at the speed of her reasoning and the lightning nature of her calculations. Her lessons always made me think of a broad, swiftly-moving stream. There was never any leisurely strolling as we followed her in search of mathematical wisdom; we were swept along in a most stimulating and exhilarating fashion; how very enjoyable it all was!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She never married. She was known universally as a kind, thoughtful, imposing, able, attentive, dignified, and charming woman with an infectious laugh.\u00a0After retirement she worked for the Australian government in London for a time and was a prolific translator of books into Braille. She was awarded the OBE in 1962 for services to education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Sydney Jewish Times,\u201c<\/em>At a time when many vocations were closed to girls, either officially or by public tradition, she expressed her \u2018unswerving belief that girls of sufficient ability were capable of reaching the same high academic standard as boys and of entering the professions on an equal footing\u2019\u201d and \u201cshe was known as a \u2018champion in the fight for equality of opportunity in the 1940s and 1950s.\u2019\u201d She was described by Smith\u2019s Weekly <\/em>in 1949 as a \u201cdominant personality of one of the dominant schools of the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During her career in education she also served as the first female fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney and was very prominent in the social life of the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n December 1934 (Source: Trove<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n February 1954 (Source: <\/em>Trove<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n She had an immense impact on the lives of hundreds of girls who came through Fort Street, but after such a promising start at university, it seems a shame that she did not go on to the kind of notable academic and scientific career that her peers such as Debenham, Priestley, Walkom<\/a>, Burrows<\/a>, Briggs<\/a>, Benson<\/a>, Dun<\/a>, and Thomson<\/a> enjoyed. As Claire Hooker wrote in Irresistible forces: Australian women in science, <\/em>\u201cMen could climb the career ladder; women were more or less limited to the bottom rungs.\u201d Catherine \u201cBright Eyes\u201d Smith married Leo Cotton\u2019s brother and disappeared from the academic world entirely; Watson<\/a>, however, also ended up as a headmaster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fanny stayed in touch with her old university friends. Raymond Priestley\u2019s diary, kept when he was vice-chancellor of Melbourne University in the 1930s, documents a meeting between himself, Deb, and Fanny during which they reminisced about old times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Presumably \u201cone of her mistresses\u201d in this context means one of the teachers in her employ, lol. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n She passed away at the grand old age of 88 in 1975 and left her sizable estate to a niece. She is remembered today at Fort Street Girl’s School by a portrait and a Fanny Cohen Gymnasium, opened in 1952 before she retired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly I have not been able to track down much archival material beyond what is held at Sydney and the State Library of New South Wales. Even the albums at Sydney are only copies of originals scanned in 1975, which are either still held by the family or lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My dream would be to track down correspondence between her and any of the Antarctics, or anything that shows that she knew of the Minnehaha Icefalls named in her honor by Debenham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Missed connections: by the time Deb got to Cambridge in 1913 to work up the results of the Terra Nova expedition, Fanny had gone home to Sydney where she remained during the war. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting thing happens when you spend a long time reading the diaries and letters and scrapbooks of long-dead individuals: you might have started out interested in one person in particular, but you come out the other end wishing you could speak to, or even be friends with, someone else entirely\u2014some obscure historical personage who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical-research","category-terra-nova-expedition","tag-fanny-cohen","tag-frank-debenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-738x1024.png\")
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F A double N Y<\/em>
Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em>
Has she passed this way\u00a0<\/em>
She comes up here the rocks to name<\/em>
But has a good time just the same<\/em>
Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em>
We haven\u2019t but we may<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
F A double N Y\u00a0<\/em>
Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em>
Don\u2019t you love her smile\u00a0<\/em>
She\u2019s a regular sporto<\/em>
No doubt she\u2019ll soon be caught-o<\/em>
Has anybody here seen Fanny<\/em>
Cohen for a little while\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-25-at-11.02.24-PM-1024x897.png\")
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Cheer up Fanny you\u2019ll soon be wed<\/em>
A long life and a dull one<\/em>
[Or: a broad smile and a nice one]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-25-at-11.42.33-PM.png\")
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These are<\/em> attributed to Thomson in Fanny\u2019s book, but this scan is from Walkom\u2019s book<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-25-at-11.24.59-PM-1024x535.png\")
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My! Ain\u2019t she beamin\u2019<\/em>
But is it at Thomson or Dun<\/em>
What a nice smile<\/em>
Boys raise your tile\u00a0<\/em>
And give her three cheers\u00a0<\/em>
she\u2019s the one\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
Mr. Thomson is saying this to me this time for a change.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-4.png\")
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However did they fit inside?\u00a0<\/em>
They gave cheek to the Lady Dem. & while she made them feel small they crept inside.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-25-at-11.40.07-PM.png\")
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She must not have been all too offended if she let him write it in her scrapbook.\u00a0<\/em>
I think he went in for big bossy girls\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-26-at-7.03.05-PM-970x1024.png\")
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On the right, Fanny poking fun at her own weight \u2014 must have been hard to be a busty Jewess back in those days, I should count my blessings\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-25-at-11.58.06-PM-1-1024x781.png\")
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The shorthand pointing to Catherine says \u201cShe is the one\u201d and pointing to Fanny says \u201cGood isn’t the word for it, we don’t think\u201d \u2014 unclear who wrote that, maybe Priestley<\/em>
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