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.
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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.
Jessie Spencer
Over 250 of Spencer’s botanical specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Dr Clara Stone
One of the founders of Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne
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.
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.