Annie Richards

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.

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Annie Moriah Sage

Annie Moriah Sage’s distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War included the introduction of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and she was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces.

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Dr Aola Mary Richards

Aola Richards was an renowned entomologist much of whose research was on the taxonomy of cave crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) of Australia and New Zealand.

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Audrey Cahn

In 1929 she completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) at the University of Melbourne, returning in 1937 to undertake a Diploma in Dietetics. Cahn returned to the university yet again, in 1947, when she commenced a 21 year career lecturing in dietetics.

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Barbara Gillian Briggs

Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific).

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Alison McCusker

Alison McCusker was appointed first Director of flora programs at the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), and was instrumental in turning the Flora of Australia from a hopeful concept into viable project.

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Ann Cameron

Ann Cameron was a toxinologist whose research focussed on the anatomy and toxinology of venomous fishes, especially stonefish and the venomous tropical and sub-tropical fish of the Pacific Ocean, and the interaction between coral and fish.

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