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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 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.

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.

Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson

Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.