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Brilliant careers : women collectors and illustrators in Queensland / compiled by Judith McKay. - South Brisbane : Queensland Museum, 1997. - vii, 80 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Bibliography: p. 79-80.

Amalie Dietrich -- Elizabeth Coxen -- Selina Lovell -- Harriette Biddulph -- Ellis Rowan -- Rowena Birkett / Dianne Byrne -- Margaret Fountaine / G.B. Monteith -- Maude Glover Fleay -- Mabel Hobler / Heather Janetzki -- Mary Strong Clemens / R.F. Langdon -- Ada McLaughlin -- Maida Allan / J. Covacevich & P. Couper -- Ursula McConnel / Judith Bartlett -- Hilda Geissmann / H.S. Curtis -- Estelle Thomson -- Jo Mackerras / Lester Cannon & G.B. Monteith -- Gwladys McKeon / Joan W. Cribb -- Gladys Thomson / Lindy Allen -- Alison Read -- Elizabeth and Katharine Dodd / G.B. Monteith -- Dorothy Hill / J.S. Jell -- Gabriele Neuhauser / Steve Van Dyck -- Vera Scarth-Johnson / John Clarkson -- Doris Goy / Rodney J.F. Henderson -- Kathleen McArthur -- Pat Marks / G.B. Monteith -- Valerie Davies / G.B. Monteith -- Jean Harslett / G.B. Monteith -- Cecily Fearnely -- Patricia Mather / Lester Cannon -- Elizabeth Exley / Judith King -- Mary Wade / Susan Turner -- Joan Cribb / R.W. Johnson.

"This book is a tribute to 34 women who, as collectors and illustrators, have enriched our knowledge of the Queensland environment and people. All have left a public legacy in their contributions to museums and herbariums, or in their publications and advocacy of conservation."--Back cover.

ISBN: 0724276939 :

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women in science--History.--Queensland
Plants--Collection and preservation--History.
Natural history illustrators--Australia--Queensland--Biography.
Botanical illustration--History.--Australia--Queensland
Zoological illustration--History.--Australia--Queensland
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation--History.--Australia--Queensland
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation--History.--Queensland
Botany--History.--Australia--Queensland
Botanical illustration.
Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation.
Botany.
Natural history illustrators.
Zoological illustration.
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation.
Natural history illustrators--Biography.--Queensland
Botanical illustration--History.--Queensland
Zoological illustration--History.--Queensland
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation--History.--Queensland
Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation--History.
Botany--History.--Queensland
Women collectors--Biography.--Queensland

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Queensland.

Subjects--Index Terms: Botany. Queensland. History Women in science. Queensland. History

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.
History.

Dewey Class. No.: 508.0922943 508.09