User:Drechmeria-RBGV
Conflict of Interest[edit]
I work for the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Certain members of our organisation, [Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria], are helping to share our botanical resources through the [GLAM Wiki initiative] project. See the RBGV [GLAM Project Page] for more information.
From October to November 2022, I am working full-time as a Digital Curation Officer (Wikimedian), at the National Herbarium of Victoria. I am working to improve the discoverability of information about women collectors represented in the National Herbarium of Victoria's holdings, via for the WikiProject RBGV National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) Collectors project
A conflict of interest statement is available on my Wikipedia User page.
What have I been doing?[edit]
I've created the following Wikidata items.
Women collectors:[edit]
- Elizabeth de Crillon Berthon (Q114841993)
- Ellen Ann Best (Q114842542)
- Jane Charlotte von Bibra (Q114843316)
- Isabella Boase (Q114860247)
- Eliza Theresa Bowen (Q114860386)
- Anna Mary Winifred Brotherton (Q114860596) <- interesting!
- Rebecca Brumby (Q114862190) (added death date, 1935)
- Elizabeth Buck (Q114871516)
- Katherine Sarah Bullock (Q114872104)
- Amelia Bunbury (Q115212324) (MEL calls her A.M. Pries.)
- Ellen Gaskin Burkitt (Q114873344)
- Charlotte Harriet Bussell (Q114873749)
- Edith Agnes Bussell (Q114873954)
- Martha Clendinning (Q114881212)
- Jessie Annie Cotter (Q114881909)
- Eliza Cox (Q114883679)
- Emma Craigie (Q114883982)
- Margaret Cronin (Q114948945)
- Frances Niel Curdie (Q114950864)
- Eleanor Alice Davey (Q114951658)
- Mary Dixon (Q114953614)
- Agnes Adelaide Donaldson (Q114987326) <- interesting!
- Annie Dulhunty (Q114990089)
- Charlotte Dumaresq (Q114992492)
- Lucy Eades (Q114996656)
- Alice Eaton (Q114997360)
- Mary Ann Eaton (Q115019781) <- portrait and information (https://www.westprint.com.au/newsletter-2022-01-07) and museum where portrait is held (https://www.wheatbelttourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Cunderdin-Museum.pdf)
- Mary Martha Vile Eaton Davey (Q115020987)
- Annie Helen Edwards (Q115029413)
- Emily Jane Emery (Q115046988)
- Mary Evans (Q115047186)
- Mary Cecil Evans (Q115047649)
- Mary Martha Farrelly (Q115048121)
- Elizabeth Henty Fereday (Q115048602)
- Elizabeth (Eliza) Fernie (Q115049089)
- Hannah Field (Q115110175)
- Louisa Bessy Franklyn (Q115111667)
- Mary Ann Gale (Q115112734)
- Sarah Alice Gordon (Q115120821)
- Sophia Sybella Goodwin (Q115113013)
- Mary Ann Elizabeth Gribble (Q115121144)
- Matilda Emma Groom (Q115122309)
- Eleanor Sarah Grover (Q114949344)
- Jane Guerin (Q115122590)
- Louisa Jane Haig (Q115122976)
- Clara Julia Harper (Q115123403)
- Martha Helmich (Q115123632)
- Euphemia Ethel Elizabeth Spencer Middleton Henderson (Q114834630)
- Maria Henley (Q115131442)
- Frances Theodosia Hester (Q115131903)
- Mary Hodgkinson (Q115132479) <- woodstock station https://library.pmi.net.au/fullRecord.jsp?recno=7638&recnolist=7638&search_filter_field=recno&search_filter_value=7638&customValue_1=Woodstock+Station+%28Avoca%2C+Vic.%29&customMatch_1=FULL&customField_1=subject_facet
- Virginia Nina Hodgkinson (Q115132845)
- Charlotte Elizabeth Holding (Q115133273)
- Lucy Edith Holding (Q115133391)
- Jessie Ann Hood (Q115133931)
- Jemima Frances Irvine (Q115146242) <- really really interesting!
- Mary Anne Jackson (Q115147934) <- really interesting!
- Maria Louisa Johnston (Q115149368)
- Mary Bozzum Kennedy (Q114882911)
- Martha Elizabeth Kentish (Q115150524)
- Mona Anna Clare McCann (Q115163745)
- Jane Campbell McKellar (Q115164318)
- Elizabeth Jane Morrell (Q114994997) <- portrait (https://collectionswa.net.au/items/8008e8ce-bfc1-4a22-bfb8-c4d98f1c16df) and memorial (https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/australian_monument/display/60562)
- Florence Julia O'Halloran (Q76239296)
- Anne Paulson (Q21457033)
- Matilda Pries (Q115223580)
- Emma Maria Rawes (Q115224070)
- Annie Frances Richards (Q115227312)
- Adelaide Victoria Robinson (Q115228425)
- Mary Ross (Q115246433)
- Kathleen Emily Margaret Ryan (Q115247743)
- Clara Oakley Ryan (Q115247584)
- Annie Eliza Ryland (Q115247816)
- Geraldine Allen Sewell (Q115248191)
- Julia Sewell (Q115248406)
- Maud Amy Sewell (Q115249004)
- Eliza Slatter (Q115258101)
- Winifred Jean Smith (Q115258832)
- Mary Spong (Q115311485)
- Margaret Ann Sutton (Q115315447)
- Catherine Louisa Taylor (Q115316020)
- Charlotte Taylor (Q115316345)
- Mary Anne Taylor (Q115330340)
- Isabella Wilhelmina Victoria Tepper (Q115331544)
- Edith Thornton (Q115332082)
- Maria Isabella Thozet (Q115332395)
- Florence Kate Toll (Q115389958)
- Sophia Jane Trimmer (Q115390890)
- Mary Elizabeth Walker (Q115393160)
- Sarah Florence Warby (Q115411994)
- Lucy Webb (Q115475229)
- Mary Anne Wilcox (Q115413028)
- Mary Isabel Wise (Q115416222)
Women collectors without a death date:[edit]
- Miss Bell (Q114835653) (no death date)
- Annie Bell (Q114835701) (no death date)
- Mrs John Brown (Q114862137) (no death date)
- Miss Brundoch (Q114862401) (no death date)
- Miss C. Burns (Q114873680) (no death date)
- Amy S. Butler (Q114874038) (no death date)
- Ann Butler (Q114874519) (no death date)
- Mrs Cardell (Q114879844) (no death date)
- Mrs J.D. Caster (Q114880069) (no death date)
- Miss Chamberlin (Q114880120) (no death date)
- Mrs D.R. Clark (Q114880417) (no death date)
- Miss Cleary (Q114880535) (no death date)
- Miss Connell (Q114881770) (no death date)
- Maria Crouch (Q114949817) (no death date)
- Mrs Cumming (Q114950175) (no death date)
- Miss Dare (Q114951413) (no death date)
- Mrs C. Dellar (Q114952867) <- this may be Mrs Charles Dellar, Dorothy Dellar (nee Jenkins) see: https://library.pmi.net.au/fullRecord.jsp?recno=21292 , https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/635882dffddcef4c6dd0ffe6/record/5c6551ea4aba80ac31eab17c?q=efamily&givenName=Charles&familyName=DELLAR and https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/635882dffddcef4c6dd0ffe6/record/5c6551914aba80ac31d902b9?q=efamily&givenName=Dorothy&familyName=DELLAR
- Mrs Donovan (Q114988639) (no death date)
- Miss Elliot (Q115046371) (no death date)
- Mrs R.E. Fisher (Q115110832) (no death date)
- Miss Forde (Q115111092) (no death date)
- Anna Friederich (Q115112344) (no death date)
- Miss S. Gerard (Q115112973) (no death date)
- Mrs Hall (Q115123070) (no death date)
- Miss Hedley (Q115123508) (no death date)
- E. Jefferson (Q115148723) (no death date)
- M. Jordan (Q115150169) (no death date)
- Mrs Kelly (Q115150363) (no death date)
- L. Kuentz (Q115162127) (no death date)
- Miss Landsborough (Q115162765) (no death date)
- Miss Loader (Q115163298) (no death date)
- Jennie E. McAdam (Q115163357) (no death date)
- Nellie McDonald (Q115164048) (no death date)
- Miss McDougall (Q115164175) (no death date)
- S. Maclean (Q115198552) (no death date)
- Mrs Manifold (Q115198767) (no death date)
- Mrs Markes (Q115199018) (no death date)
- Miss Murray (Q115200581) (no death date)
- Mrs Murray (Q115200814) (no death date)
- Annie Murray (Q115200954) (no death date)
- Mrs I. Nott (Q115201025) (no death date)
- Mrs Palmer (Q115203037) (no death date)
- E.C. Parke (Q115210476) (no death date)
- Mrs R. Parker (Q115210775) (no death date)
- Miss E. Parkinson (Q115210849) (no death date)
- Lizzie Renfrey (Q115226864) (no death date)
- A. Roper (Q115229254) (no death date)
- Miss Salmon (Q115248099) (no death date)
- A. Sim (Q115257711) (no death date)
- Miss Smith (Q115258671) (no death date)
- J. Smith (Q115258770) (no death date)
- Mrs Stewart (Q115314111) (no death date)
- Miss Stirling (Q115314208) (no death date)
- E.A. Taylor (Q115315886) (no death date)
- Miss Urquhart (Q115391775) (no death date)
- E. Wakley (Q115391982) (no death date)
- H. Walker (Q115392642) (no death date)
- L.C. Walker (Q115392765) (no death date)
- M.L. Walker (Q115392955) (no death date)
- Miss Mary Walker (Q115393037) (no death date)
- Miss Webb (Q115412582) (no death date)
Men collectors:[edit]
- John Fereday (Q115048706)
- Thomas Paul Richards (Q115227573)
- John Whinray (Q115148185)
- James Fowler Wilcox (Q115413824)
Herbaria:[edit]
- Lund University Botanical Museum (Q114999386)
Places:[edit]
- Huntingtower (Q115133831)
- Copperfield (town in Queensland) (Q115258380)
Events[edit]
- Victorian Exhibition 1861 (Q115211650)
- The Victorian Art Exhibition 1864-65 (Q115211949)
Organisations:[edit]
- The Wilgie Sketch Club (Q115329543)
- West Australian Society of Arts (Q115329710)
Significant Animal:[edit]
Beaunilly (Q115388996)
Sources:[edit]
- Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists (Q114834650)
- The Private Life of a Public Figure: Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, 1825-1896 (Q114834782)
- Parcels Render Neglected People Visible (Q114996764), from
- Boxes: A Field Guide (Q114996795)
- The valley and East Coast voice (Q115122462)
- Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians (Q115122719)
- Queensland Heritage (Q115332719)
- The Great North-West and its resources: the undeveloped heritage of Western Australia (Q115367612)
- Australian women photographers, 1840-1960 (Q115367466)
- They came to Greenough: written for the descendants of Reuben and Elizabeth Morrell (Q115367248)
- Tepper Family History (Q115386187)
What have I been doing in Bionomia with these records?[edit]
I have added the following collectors to Bionomia, and attributed their collections held by MEL:[edit]
(Note that these numbers do not perfectly match the first list, as this list includes people who had already been Wikidata'ed but had not been linked to their Bionomia profile.)
- Ada Elizabeth Amytage ([Bionomia])
- Susannah Barker ([Bionomia])
- Elizabeth de Crillon Berthon ([Bionomia])
- Jane Charlotte von Bibra ([Bionomia]) <- I can't find her specimen? https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/19732031-7390-4d52-9792-eeefa6d1e33f
- Ada Murch Beal ([Bionomia])
- Ellen Ann Best ([Bionomia])
- Isabella Boase ([Bionomia])
- Eliza Theresa Bowen (Bionomia) <- check https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2438958032
- Anna Mary Winifred Brotherton (Q114860596) ([Bionomia])
- Rebecca Brumby (Q114862190) ([Bionomia])
- Elizabeth Buck (Q114871516) ([Bionomia])
- Katherine Sarah Bullock (Q114872104) ([Bionomia])
- Amelia Bunbury (Q115212324) ([Bionomia])
- Diana Richardson Bunbury (Q97959274) ([Bionomia])
- Ellen Gaskin Burkitt (Q114873344) ([Bionomia])
- Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman (Q112052173) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Harriet Bussell (Q114873749) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Josephine Bussell (Q96078537) ([Bionomia])
- Edith Agnes Bussell (Q114873954) ([Bionomia])
- Martha Clendinning (Q114881212) ([Bionomia])
- Jessie Annie Cotter (Q114881909) ([Bionomia])
- Eliza Cox (Q114883679) ([Bionomia])
- Emma Craigie (Q114883982) ([Bionomia])
- Margaret Cronin (Q114948945) ([Bionomia])
- Frances Niel Curdie (Q114950864) ([Bionomia])
- Eleanor Alice Davey (Q114951658) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Dixon (Q114953614) ([Bionomia])
- Agnes Adelaide Donaldson (Q114987326) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Dulhunty (Q114990089) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Dumaresq (Q114992492) ([Bionomia])
- Lucy Eades (Q114996656) ([Bionomia])
- Alice Eaton (Q114997360) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Ann Eaton (Q115019781) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Martha Vile Eaton Davey (Q115020987) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Helen Edwards (Q115029413) ([Bionomia])
- Emily Jane Emery (Q115046988) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Evans (Q115047186) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Cecil Evans (Q115047649) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Martha Farrelly (Q115048121) ([Bionomia])
- Elizabeth Henty Fereday (Q115048602) ([Bionomia])
- Elizabeth (Eliza) Fernie (Q115049089) ([Bionomia])
- Hannah Field (Q115110175) ([Bionomia])
- Louisa Bessy Franklyn (Q115111667) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Ann Gale (Q115112734) ([Bionomia])
- Sophia Sybella Goodwin (Q115113013) ([Bionomia])
- Sarah Alice Gordon (Q115120821) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Ann Elizabeth Gribble (Q115121144) ([Bionomia])
- Matilda Emma Groom (Q115122309) ([Bionomia])
- Eleanor Sarah Grover (Q114949344) ([Bionomia])
- Jane Guerin (Q115122590) ([Bionomia])
- Louisa Jane Haig (Q115122976) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Rose Scott Hamilton (Q75429290) ([Bionomia])
- Clara Julia Harper (Q115123403) ([Bionomia])
- Martha Helmich (Q115123632) ([Bionomia])
- Maria Henley (Q115131442) ([Bionomia])
- Frances Theodosia Hester (Q115131903) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Hodgkinson (Q115132479) ([Bionomia])
- Virginia Nina Hodgkinson (Q115132845) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Elizabeth Holding (Q115133273) ([Bionomia])
- Lucy Edith Holding (Q115133391) ([Bionomia])
- Jessie Ann Hood (Q115133931) ([Bionomia])
- Jemima Frances Irvine (Q115146242) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Anne Jackson (Q115147934) ([Bionomia])
- Maria Louisa Johnston (Q115149368) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Bozzum Kennedy (Q114882911) ([Bionomia])
- Martha Elizabeth Kentish (Q115150524) ([Bionomia])
- Georgina King (Q21538321) ([Bionomia])
- Mona Anna Clare McCann (Q115163745) ([Bionomia])
- Jane Campbell McKellar (Q115164318) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Eliza Madden (Q113032707) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Manton (Q113033218) ([Bionomia])
- Harriet Morgan (Q12068549) ([Bionomia])
- Elizabeth Jane Morrell (Q114994997) ([Bionomia])
- Emma Oakden (Q113056143) ([Bionomia])
- Florence Julia O'Halloran (Q76239296) ([Bionomia])
- Anne Paulson (Q21457033) ([Bionomia])
- Matilda Pries (Q115223580) ([Bionomia])
- Emma Maria Rawes (Q115224070) ([Bionomia])
- Helena Scott (Q5703729) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Frances Richards (Q115227312) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Ross (Q115246433) ([Bionomia])
- Kathleen Emily Margaret Ryan (Q115247743) ([Bionomia])
- Clara Oakley Ryan (Q115247584) ([Bionomia])
- Annie Eliza Ryland (Q115247816) ([Bionomia])
- Geraldine Allen Sewell (Q115248191) ([Bionomia])
- Julia Sewell (Q115248406) ([Bionomia])
- Maud Amy Sewell (Q115249004) ([Bionomia])
- Eliza Slatter (Q115258101) ([Bionomia])
- Winifred Jean Smith (Q115258832) ([Bionomia]) <- can't find her specimens?
- Jessie Spencer (Q67155257) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Spong (Q115311485) ([Bionomia])
- Amie Livingstone Stirling (Q109853523) ([Bionomia])
- Margaret Ann Sutton (Q115315447) ([Bionomia])
- Catherine Louisa Taylor (Q115316020) ([Bionomia])
- Charlotte Taylor (Q115316345) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Anne Taylor (Q115330340) ([Bionomia]) <- can't find her specimens?
- Isabella Wilhelmina Victoria Tepper (Q115331544) ([Bionomia])
- Edith Thornton (Q115332082) ([Bionomia])
- Maria Isabella Thozet (Q115332395) ([Bionomia])
- Florence Kate Toll (Q115389958) ([Bionomia])
- Sophia Jane Trimmer (Q115390890) ([Bionomia])
- Anna Frances Walker (Q86620516) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Elizabeth Walker (Q115393160) ([Bionomia]) <- can't find her specimens?
- Mary Egerton-Warburton (Q75954944) ([Bionomia])
- Winifred Amy Egerton-Warburton (Q75954475) ([Bionomia])
- Julia Wells (Q6306838) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Anne Wilcox (Q115413028) ([Bionomia])
- Mary Isabel Wise (Q115416222) ([Bionomia])
- Sarah Florence Warby (Q115411994) ([Bionomia])
- Eliza Watson (Q76238604) ([Bionomia])
- Lucy Webb (Q115475229) ([Bionomia])
And for male collectors:
- Octavius William Borrell (Q111174553) ([Bionomia])
- Daniel Curdie (Q102039469) ([Bionomia])
- John Fereday (Q115048706) ([Bionomia])
- Charles Frederick Gale (Q19667524) ([Bionomia])
- Ernest Richard Bulmer Gribble (Q21537478) ([Bionomia])
- Charles Harper (Q5078788) ([Bionomia])
- Harry Johnston (Q5670098) ([Bionomia])
- John Stephen Maley (Q21535786) ([Bionomia])
- Thomas Joseph Shuldham O'Halloran (Q76050403) ([Bionomia])
- Thomas Paul Richards (Q115227573) ([Bionomia])
- Alfred Josepf Taylor (Q21535409) ([Bionomia])
- John William Otto Tepper (Q109544773) ([Bionomia])
- James Fowler Wilcox (Q115413824) ([Bionomia])
- Adolph Würfel (Q94920673) ([Bionomia])
Useful sources:[edit]
Sources I didn't create:[edit]
- Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors: a biographical register (Q101072613)
- Wikidata query builder [[1]]
- Wikidata query example [[2]]
Non-Wikidata-specific sources:[edit]
- Birth Deaths and Marriages Victoria "search your family history": https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
- NSW Family History Search https://www.nsw.gov.au/family-and-relationships/family-history-search
- Western Australian Online Index (Births Deaths Marriages) https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-justice/online-index-search-tool
- Western Australian cemetery records https://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/research