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Dr June Halliday

June Halliday was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, 11 June 1990, for service to medical science, particularly in the field of biochemical research.

Elizabeth Coxen

Elizabeth Frances Coxen was a naturalist and meteorologist who, together with her husband Charles, donated many natural history specimens to the Queensland Museum.

Between 1880 and 1890 she collected plant specimens around Wentworth and along the Murray and Darling Rivers. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 350 of her specimens, as well as some collected by her daughter Lucy Edith Holding (1873 – 1919).

Jane Hellicar

Jane Hellicar was the first Nightingale-nurse to be employed as Lady Superintendent of any hospital in Queensland. In 1877 she was appointed to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane, the second children’s hospital established in Australia.

Emma Oakden

Emma Oakden collected botanical specimens in eastern Tasmania, particularly in the Launceston district, in the 1880s. Over 250 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

Ellen Biddulph

Ellen Biddulph collected plant specimens in central Queensland in the 1890s, sending them to the Victorian Government Botanist for identification. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds nearly 400 of her specimens.

Dr Clara Stone

One of the founders of Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne

Eleanor Emily Chase

Eleanor Emily Chase was a Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney in the 1910s and 1920s

Fanny Cohen

Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School.