Ethel McLennan was Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1955, after having joined the staff in 1915. She specialized in mycology and plant pathology, being widely recognised and one of Australia’s leaders in these fields.
Following PhD studies in the bryophyte family Aneuraceae and a number of years teaching at tertiary institutions, Helen Hewson played an integral role in the establishment and development of the Flora of Australia program of the Bureau of Flora and Fauna (later the Australian Biological Resources Study).
Gillian Perry was an internationally recognised authority on botanical nomenclature.
Professor Nancy Millis made significant contributions to agriculture, protection of the environment, science, medicine and engineering.
Gladys Carey worked in the Department of Botany, University of Sydney and was the author of “Botany by Observation: A text-books for Australian schools” (Angus and Robertson 1941).
Jennifer Gardner was Curator of the Waite Arboretum at the University of Adelaide from 1986 to 2017. During this time she increased its collection of trees to over 2,200 species, improved public access, and established the Friends of the Waite Arboretum in 1994.
Irish divorcee, WWI hospital worker and company director
Australian freshwater biologist whose research focused on the taxonomy and ecology of planktonic crustaceans, the vertical migratory behaviour of plankton and the physics and chemistry of lakes.
Effie Wyllie Best worked in the Zoology Department at the University of Adelaide for at least six years and then went on to teach at the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College and at Girton College.
Jean Youatt lectured in the Department of Chemistry at Monash University from 1962 until her retirement in 1990, when she moved to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.