Jane Guerin was a plant collector who between 1860 and 1874 collected specimens around the family property ‘Pigeongrove’, Vasse, Western Australia, as well as Geographe Bay and the Geraldton and Murchison districts. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her collections, including some type specimens.
Barbara Main is one of Australia’s foremost experts on the taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of spiders, particularly trapdoors and funnelwebs.
Belinda Jane Gillies worked in the Birds section of the Museum of Victoria from 1979 to 1992 and was Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (now Birds Australia) from 1988 to 1992.
Belle Reed is regarded as the first formally recognised female veterinary surgeon in the world. In 1906 she graduated from the Melbourne Veterinary College, was accepted as a member of the Veterinary Board of Victoria, and established her own Veterinary Practice in Melbourne.
Anne Bermingham was a chemist appointed to the staff of the Museum of Applied Science in Melbourne in 1952 to establish a radiocarbon dating facility for the Museum.
Anne Kelso has fostered the development and commercialisation of Australian vaccine technologies and placed Australia in the forefront of global influenza surveillance, research and pandemic preparedness.
Dr Annie Hensley was appointed coordinator of the Melbourne City Council’s first campaign to combat dyptheria in 1924.
Annie Laidlow served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service during WWI. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children’s Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service.
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Annie Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.