Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
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Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Ellen Hutchins
Irish cryptogamic botanist
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen consort of Great Britain for fifty-seven years.
Eva Ekeblad
Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish salon hostess, scientist and agronomist.
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.
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.