Dr Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan
Gwynneth Buchanan became a Lecturer in 1921 and a Senior Lecturer in 1925 in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. Her much used text “Elements of Animal Morphology” was published in 1921.
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Belle Sherwin
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
Dr Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner
1800s American physician
Almira L Fales
Philanthropist who tended the sick and wounded during the US Civil War
Isabel Bassett Wasson
Yellowstone’s first woman park ranger, in 1920
Ban Zhao
Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician, the earliest known female Chinese historian
Dr Alice M Steeves
Turn of the century American dentist
Elizabeth Fanning
Australian dentist and dental surgeon
Doris Sinkora
Doris Sinkora was for 24 years a Technical Assistant at the National Herbarium of Victoria; appointed to undertake general curation duties, she soon developed an interest in algae that saw her become curator of those collections.
Joan Burton Bradley
With a keen interest in observing the natural environment, she and her sister studied the habits of the Superb Fairy-wren and their notes were published in Emu in 1958. Eileen and Joan were instrumental in the development of bush regeneration, particularly in removing weeds and promoting natural regeneration.