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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

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.

Alice Eaton

Alice Eaton and her sister Mary Martha Eaton (1868 – 1941) both collected plant specimens around the family home in Youngedin, Western Australia, and near the sources of the Swan and Blackwood Rivers; over 750 of her specimens are retained in the National Herbarium of Victoria.