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Louisa Beaufort

1800s Welsh antiquarian, artist, entomologist and writer

Malvina Malinek

Malvina Malinek has advocated for the rights of women, in particular migrant and refugee women, at the local, national and international level in Australia.

Loisette Marsh

Loisette Marsh was one of Australia’s few echinoderm taxonomists.

Joan Paton

Joan Paton was an amateur ornithologist in 20th century Australia.

Joan Ford

Joan Ford was Research Biologist with the Department of Physics, University of Tasmania 1940-1950.

Dr Joan Crockford

Joan Crockford was an Australian geologist and invertebrate palaeontologist who specialised in Palaeozoic bryozoans.

Lilian Ross Fraser

Lillian Ross Fraser was a botanist whose work identifying fungi and viruses was hugely beneficial to the New South Wales citrus industry.

Andree Layton Roaf

Andree Yvonne Layton Roaf was an Arkansas attorney and jurist who distinguished herself in the fields of biology, law, and community service.

Lilian Marguerite Medland

Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England and illustrated The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, among other books.

Josephine Mackerras worked in the Division of Economic Entomology, CSIR, Canberra, the LHQ Medical Research Unit, Cairns during World War II, and was Senior Parasitologist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research until 1961.