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Mary Merrifield

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.

Maria Sibylla Merian

German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.

Dr Emilie Snethlage

Dr. Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country.

Margaret Newton

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 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).

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.

Ethel Irene McLennan

The substantial legacy of this trailblazing plant pathologist includes the University of Melbourne’s fungal-rich herbarium and library, her scientific publications and her students’ ideas and investigations.

Jane Fletcher

Jane Fletcher published a number of books on nature and nature study and broadcast on 7ZL Hobart and 3LO Melbourne. In 1934 she became the first woman to lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was an outstanding bird observer with a particular interest in crakes and rails.

Máirín de Valera

Irish phycologist

Thistle Yolette Harris

Through her teaching and writing, she did a great deal to popularize knowledge about Australian flora, to encourage domestic gardeners to include native plants in their gardens and to persuade a wider audience of the need for conservation measures. She published twelve books about Australian plants and teaching nature studies between 1938 and 1980, and contributed widely to scientific journals and reference books including The Australian Naturalist, Australian Wild Life, Australian Encyclopaedia and Science Wonders of Australia. She was also editor, at various times, of New Horizons in Education, Australian Wildlife and Wildlife Research News.