Anna Frances Walker
Anna Walker was a botanist during the 1800s who studied the flora of New South Wales and Tasmania. The Mitchell Library has a collection of her works including sketches and letters.
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Dr Laurel Clark
American astronaut and medical doctor
Judith Arundell Wright
Judith Wright wrote on many issues including nature conservation and the rights of indigenous people. She fought to save the Great Barrier Reef from mining and oil drilling and to establish the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Dr Alicia Oshlack
Head of the bioinformatics research group Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne
Alison Marjorie Ashby
Alison Ashby painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.
Alison Betty Doley
Alison Doley was a farmer and conservationist who from 1966 managed, with her husband John, the family’s wheat and sheep property Koobabbie in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Jennie Kidd Trout
Canada’s first licensed female doctor and promoter of women’s medical education
Dr Penny Whetton
Pioneering climate scientist
Catharine Parr Traill
1800s English-Canadian author
Dr Seraph Frissell
1800s American doctor and temperance advocate