Catherine Anne Money
Australian biochemist who simplified the preparation of hides in Australian tanneries, now used globally to minimise tannery effluents and maximises hide quality
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Dr Phyllis Clinch
Irish btoanist
Constance Delap
With her father and sisters she collected plants and animals from the shore and, following her father’s habit, began writing and sending specimens to the Natural History Museum in London.
Maude Delap
Irish naturalist and marine biologist
Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
Dr Katharine Jeannette Bush
American zoologist
Mary Ball
Irish entomologist and conchologist
Aleen Cust
Irish veterinary surgeon and first female member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Elizabeth Joan Batham
Batham was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1962. She also served a term as president of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society in 1966. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1960 and to reader in 1967.
Patricia Marjorie Ralph
Marine biologist Pat Ralph specialised in marine hydroids, which before she began publishing were little studied in New Zealand; she published five seminal papers on the thecate hydroids of New Zealand between 1957 and 1961. Her pioneering work won worldwide recognition and in 1962 she received the rarely given DSc; she was the first woman on the staff of Victoria University College to receive the degree.