The Queensland Naturalist 
37 
August. 1932 
It is hardly necessary to remind members of this club 
of the work of Mrs. Ellis Rowan. She was a botanical 
artist who had a great and genuine love for her subject. 
Her energy was indefatigable, and when one considers that 
a great deal of travelling Avas necessary to secure the fresh 
specimens she always used, her output is really amazing. 
As with most very prolific artists, her work is a little 
uneven, but it is unnecessary and unprofitable to seek for 
faults among so much that is excellent. The collection of 
her paintings in the Queensland Museum should be a 
delight and a source of inspiration to everyone interested 
in this subject. 
Remains, then, the work of those women who are still 
living, and 1 propose merely to mention a few names as 
typical and representative of the wide botanical field in 
Avhicli Australian women are now working. 
In Western Australia, Mrs. Emily Felloe is pre- 
eminent both as artist and as writer, and the Misses Helen 
Ogden and Ida Richardson have published two excellent 
collections of coloured photographs of W.A. flowers. 
I n Victoria, Mrs. Edith Coleman has done work along 
original lines in connection with the fertilisation of orchids 
and Mrs. Eaves is an expert in stereo-photography both of 
flowers in their natural condition and also dissected. 
N.S/W. has Miss Florence Sulman, whose invaluable 
“Wild Flowers of N.S.W.” owes much to the excellent 
drawings of Miss E. Mort. Miss Annie Sul man, sister of 
the above has published two volumes of flower photo- 
graphs. Miss Margaret Flocton did the illustrations for 
Maiden's “Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus” 
and for “The Forest Flora of N.S.W. ” 
In S.A., Miss Rosa Fiveash is known as the illustrator 
of some of Dr. Rogers' work on orchids, and Miss Olive 
Davies collaborated with Professor Ewart in the produc- 
tion of “The Flora of the Northern Territory,” by EAvart 
and Davies. 
Here in Queensland we have an admirable flower 
photographer in Mrs. Hilda Curtis, a member of this club, 
Avhile another woman, Miss L. S. Gibbs, braved the dis- 
comforts and difficulties of collecting on Bellenden Ker 
during the Avet summer months. 
It is only by knowledge that a subject becomes absorb- 
ing and it is only by making steps of those pieces of know- 
ledge laboriously acquired by ourselves that we can spring 
nimbly up the steep and slippery hill called Botany. 
