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Caroline Hussey

Irsh scientist, academic and educationalist

Honoria Galwey

Irish folk music scholar

Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment in the 1930s.

Elizabeth Carrington Pope

Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.

Danuta Krystyna Knihinicki

Danuta Khihinicki was an Australian acarologist whose main focus was on mites in the superfamily Eriophyoidea, particularly their taxonomy.

Ellen Clark

Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia’s crustacea.

Ina Watson

Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).

Dorothy Forsaith

Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.