Olive Blanche Davies
Petalostigma quadriloculare from Flora of the Northern Territory
Olive Blanche Davies
Alfred Ewart of their 1917 book The Flora of the Northern Territory, and for producing many of the illustrations.[2]
Olive was born
Toorak, Victoria, the youngest of six children of Elizabeth Locke Mercer (*c1850) from Kirkcudbright and Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850-1912) [3] of Geelong.[4][5]
She was a government research scholar studying biology at
Melbourne University, and wrote a paper in 1911 on Petterd's semi-slug Cystopelta petterdi, and another in 1914 on Caryodes dufresnii, a large land mollusk native to Tasmania.[6][7][8]
On 22 December 1915 at 'Cluden', in Brighton, Australia, Olive Blanche Davies married Arthur Lyle Rossiter, a lieutenant in the Australian Expeditionary Force, and elder son of Edward Lyle Rossiter of
4th Australian Division in France. In 1924 he was appointed on a temporary basis as senior master at Melbourne High School.[11] She died in Adelaide
.
References
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- ^ "Martin-Yuille Tree - Geneanet".
- ^ "Davies, Olive Blanche". www.anbg.gov.au.
- ^ Freeman, R. D. "Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850–1912)". Cultural Advice. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ^ "James Stewart Mercer, Christopher Frederick Metelmann, Louis Meyer, Jonathan Mitchell, Maurice Joseph Morton, Patrick Mullavey". www.oocities.org.
- ^ Ewart, Alfred J.; Cheel, Edwin; Davies, Olive B.; Hamilton, Arthur Andrew; Maiden, J. H. (22 January 2024). The flora of the Northern Territory. McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers.
- ^ Davies, O. B. (22 January 2024). "BioStor-Lite". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 27: 19–24.
- ^ "| Shells For Sale | Conchology". www.conchology.be.
- ^ Davies, O. B. (22 January 2024). "BioStor-Lite". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 24: 331–342.
- ^ The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria)
- ^ "Australian War Memorial".
- ^ Victoria Government Gazette
- ^ International Plant Names Index. O.B.Davies.
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