Alison McCusker
Alison McCusker was appointed first Director of flora programs at the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), and was instrumental in turning the Flora of Australia from a hopeful concept into viable project.
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Alma Theodora Lee
Alma Lee was a botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales from 1938.
Anna Frances Walker
Anna Walker was a botanist during the 1800s who studied the flora of New South Wales and Tasmania. The Mitchell Library has a collection of her works including sketches and letters.
Catharine Parr Traill
1800s English-Canadian author
Ute Roessner
Professor Roessner is one of Australia’s foremost plant scientists and a world leader in the field of metabolomics – the detection and quantification of small molecule metabolites in biological materials.
Enid Michael
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Naturalist, 1921-1942
Clare Marie Hodges
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger, 1918
Ellen Powell Thompson
American explorer and botanist
Belle Dibley Hawgood
Belle Dibley Hawgood made an important regional contribution to botany by collecting approximately 1,000 herbarium specimens, most from northern Ohio, over a period of more than forty years.
Dr Jean White-Haney
Jean White-Haney was a McBain research scholar in the Botany Department, University of Melbourne and was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1909. She was Officer-in-Charge of the Dulacca Research Station, Queensland Prickly Pear Board until 1916 and worked for CSIR 1928-1930.