Cynthia Longfield
Irish entomologist and traveller
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Carmel Humphries
Irish zoologist
Elsie Dalyell
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 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).
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.
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.