Gladys Carey
Gladys Carey worked in the Department of Botany, University of Sydney and was the author of “Botany by Observation: A text-books for Australian schools” (Angus and Robertson 1941).
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Dr Jennifer Gardner
Jennifer Gardner was Curator of the Waite Arboretum at the University of Adelaide from 1986 to 2017. During this time she increased its collection of trees to over 2,200 species, improved public access, and established the Friends of the Waite Arboretum in 1994.
Dr Ethel MacLennan
Ethel McLennan was Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1955, after having joined the staff in 1915. She specialized in mycology and plant pathology, being widely recognised and one of Australia’s leaders in these fields.
Isabel Clifton Cookson
Isabel Cookson was Research Fellow in Botany, University of Melbourne 1952-1959. She was world renowned for her research which included fossil plant studies.
Eileen Ramsay
Eileen Ramsay was an enthusiastic Australian plant collector who for 20 years from 1949 collected specimens in the Mallee in north-western Victoria.
Fanny Charsley
Fanny Charsley was an English botanical artist and collector who spent a decade in Australia (1856 – 1866). Shortly after she returned to England she published a book of her work on Australian wild flowers titled “The Wild Flowers around Melbourne” (1867).
Hilda Geissmann
Hilda Gladys Geissmann was a self-taught naturalist and nature photographer. Many of her specimens were greatly prized because of their rarity, beauty or quality and are housed in museums and herbariums throughout Australia and in the USA.
Edith Coleman
Edith Coleman was a naturalist who wrote prolifically on a wide range of animals and published in both scientific journals and the popular press.
Geraldine Allen Sewell
Geraldine Sewell collected plant specimens in Western Australia between 1886 and 1891 around Mount Caroline ; over 300 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Kathleen McArthur
Wildflower enthusiast and environmental activist