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Dora Lush

Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.

Liz Grant

Elizabeth Grant was a pharmacy proprietor and manager for many years. She was also a Member of the House of Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, 1979-1982.

Jean Harslett

Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist

Dr Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan

Gwynneth Buchanan became a Lecturer in 1921 and a Senior Lecturer in 1925 in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. Her much used text “Elements of Animal Morphology” was published in 1921.

Dawn Frith and her husband carried out long-term studies of bower birds and birds of paradise in northern Queensland and in New Guinea, from which they wrote the first – and often the only – accounts of the nesting biology and behaviour of these species.

Ellen McCulloch

Ellen McCulloch was a long-term member, Honorary Secretary (1975-1982) and Public Relations Officer of the Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA). She authored many books and lectured and ran tours for the CAE (Council for Adult Education, Melbourne) for over ten years.

Dr Pat Marks

Pat Marks was one of Australia’s leading entomologists and malaria experts.

Jeanette Covacevich

Jeanette Covacevich was a herpetologist whose research interests were mainly in the taxonomy, zoogeography and conservation of Australo-Papuan reptiles, especially those from rainforests, deserts and heaths. Her research also included Aboriginal history, envenomation, and documenting the range and status of the Queensland fauna, particularly endangered vertebrates.