Mary Anning
English fossil hunter
English fossil hunter
Irish marine biologist and ornithologist
Irish entomologist and traveller
Irish zoologist
The first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-1912. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-1923 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-1946.
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Dr. Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country.
For her internationally recognized work in cereal rusts, Margaret was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1942, only the second Canadian woman to be so honored.
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).