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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 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.

Fanny Macleay

Fanny Macleay was an 1800s collector and illustrator of botanical and entomological specimens in Australia.

Fanny Elizabeth De Mole

Fanny Elizabeth De Mole was a British born botanical artist who illustrated and published the first book about South Australian flora, Wildflowers of South Australia(1861), having hand-coloured the lithographic illustrations in each copy.

Chronology
1856
Life event – Family emigrated to Australia from London, England.
1861
Career event – Published Wildflowers of South Australia

Ellen Benham

In 1902 Benham was appointed as a botany lecturer at the University of Adelaide.

Ida Mann

Ida Mann was an ophthalmologist who was the first woman to be appointed Senior Surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and in 1944 the first woman to hold a Chair at the University of Oxford.

Diana Richardson Bunbury

Diana Bunbury collected seeds for the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens in Ireland and between 1874 and 1890 sent plant specimens, particularly algae, to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne.

Dr Phoebe Chapple

Phoebe Chapple graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1904 and practised medicine in Adelaide until she was 85. She distinguished herself during World War I and was awarded the Military Medal. Later she specialised in obstetrics and the veneral diseases of women.

Frances Gillam Holden

Frances Holden was Lady Superintendent of the Hospital for Sick Children, Sydney from 1880 to 1887, during which time she published works on medicine and nursing training as well as verse and prose.

Jennifer Seberry

Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.