Annie Richards
Annie Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
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Barbara Gillian Briggs
Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific).
Jane Guerin
Jane Guerin was a plant collector who between 1860 and 1874 collected specimens around the family property ‘Pigeongrove’, Vasse, Western Australia, as well as Geographe Bay and the Geraldton and Murchison districts. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her collections, including some type specimens.
Alison Marjorie Ashby
Alison Ashby painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.
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.
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