Alice Scharff
Alice helped her husband’s zoological studies as both collector and writer, and compiled the twenty-five-year author index of the Irish Naturalist (February 1915).
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Jane Scharff
A graduate of the RUI, Jane Scharff gained a technical assistantship at the NMI in 1905, later becoming assistant naturalist. She took part in the Clare Island survey and became a recognised authority on the marine and fresh-water sponges of Ireland. She also wrote papers on coelenterates and corals.
Nina Muir
New Zealand doctor
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish X-ray crystallographer and pacifist
Eleonora Fleury
Irish medical doctor
Dr Emily Dickson
Irish doctor
Dr Barbara Stokes
Irish paediatrician and disability campaigner
Adelaide Kellett
Adelaide Kellett became Matron of the Sydney Hospital in 1921 after serving in World War 1 as an army nurse. She was President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association 1929-1930, 1933-1934, 1937 and 1941-1942.
Lydia Shackleton
Irish botanical artist, teacher, and poet
Ada McLaughlin
Ada Mary McLaughlin was a botanical collector and former school teacher with the Queensland Department of Public Instruction. She made many collection expeditions around her local area and donated some 122 specimens to the Queensland Herbarium.