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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.

Jean Galbraith

Through her innovative writing for diverse readerships, Jean Galbraith became a leader in promoting native flora.

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.