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This course is designated writing intensive. Īccording to an interview given in her nineties, Wylie recalled that "women were well accepted in zoology and botany and she did not experience prejudice, though she also notes that women lecturers behaved as ‘honorary men’ it was they who had to adapt rather than the men." Three one-hour lectures and one three-hour. Returning to New Zealand, she worked in the Department of Botany at the University of Otago, setting up courses on cytology and genetics, and teaching both zoology and botany students. Wylie went to the University of London in 1947, where she completed a PhD in the new fields of cytology and genetics, and then lectured at the University of Manchester. Wylie submitted her Masters thesis, titled Vascular anatomy of New Zealand's malvaceous trees in 1945, while resident in St Margaret's College.
Alongside Betty Batham, Margaret Cookson and Brenda Shore, Wylie took up teaching to keep the department going. In 1944, Wylie was completing her honours degree in the Department of Botany at the University of Otago when Professor John Holloway retired suddenly through ill health. Also in 1946, Wylie was awarded a postgraduate science scholarship by the University of New Zealand, to fund two years of overseas study. She began working at the Wheat Research Institute at Lincoln in November 1946, carrying out experimental and statistical work. She completed her Master of Science with first-class honours in botany in 1945, and a Diploma of Honours in zoology the following year. She was educated at Nga Tawa Diocesan School near Marton, and went on to study at the University of Otago. Wylie was born in 1922, the daughter of noted surgeon David Storer Wylie, who survived the sinking of the SS Marquette in 1915, and his second wife, Isobel Edith Wylie (née Daplyn).