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Ethel Irene McLennan

The substantial legacy of this trailblazing plant pathologist includes the University of Melbourne’s fungal-rich herbarium and library, her scientific publications and her students’ ideas and investigations.

Agnes McDonald

For many years Agnes McDonald used her medical experience to treat local Maori. Her work was of critical importance during the 1860s when epidemics of scrofula and influenza caused heavy mortality in the district. She is said to have found an effective treatment for scrofula, using iodine. In the 1870s she applied to Donald McLean and was authorised to make up a medicine chest at government expense and to replenish it on each visit to Wellington.

Jane Fletcher

Jane Fletcher published a number of books on nature and nature study and broadcast on 7ZL Hobart and 3LO Melbourne. In 1934 she became the first woman to lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was an outstanding bird observer with a particular interest in crakes and rails.

Máirín de Valera

Irish phycologist

Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson

Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

Annie Praed

Annie Praed enrolled in the first dentistry course at the University of Sydney. In 1938 she was the first woman to graduate Doctor of Dental Science (DDSc) from the University of Sydney.

Louisa Lee Schuyler

American philanthropic social worker

Jean Galbraith

Through her innovative writing for diverse readerships, Jean Galbraith became a leader in promoting native flora.

Dr Charlotte Anderson

As registrar and research fellow in the RCH’s Clinical Research Unit from 1948 to 1950, she was a pioneer in paediatric gastroentology and made major contributions to the treatment of cystic fibrosis, coeliac disease and sugar intolerance. Among her groundbreaking discoveries were a test to distinguish between cystic fibrosis and coeliacs in children, and the identification of gluten as a cause of coeliacs.

Shirley Roberts

Roberts became deputy director of radiology at the Alfred Hospital before moving in 1962 to become director of radiology at Prince Henry’s Hospital in St Kilda Road, Melbourne.