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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 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

Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter collected botanical specimens largely from the Upper Hunter River region of New South Wales. Over 300 of Carter’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

Margaret Browne

In 1893, she published the first Australian Garden Guide written by a woman, “The Flower Garden in Australia. A book for Ladies and Amateurs”.

Charlotte Elizabeth Holding

Between 1880 and 1890 she collected plant specimens around Wentworth and along the Murray and Darling Rivers. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 350 of her specimens, as well as some collected by her daughter Lucy Edith Holding (1873 – 1919).

Emma Oakden

Emma Oakden collected botanical specimens in eastern Tasmania, particularly in the Launceston district, in the 1880s. Over 250 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.