Person

Galbraith, Jean (1906 - 1999)

Born
28 March 1906
Tyers, Victoria, Australia
Died
2 January 1999
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Naturalist and Botanical collector

Summary

Jean Galbraith, a prominent Victorian naturalist, joined the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria in 1923 and in 1970 was awarded their Australian Natural History Medallion. Although seldom travelling from the family property in Gippsland (V.), Galbraith became expert in the botany of south-eastern Australia. She learnt botany by correspondence from Herbert Williamson. In 1950 she published "Wildflowers of Victoria" which by 1970 had gone to three editions. For many years Galbraith wrote in popular gardening magazines and newspapers under the pseudonym 'Correa'. Over 1,000 of Galbraith's specimens were lodged in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

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Chronology

1980
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion

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Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Jean Galbraith - Records, 1920 - 1980; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Articles

Books

  • Allen, Terri G., Gippsland Lady Botanists (Inverloch, Vic.: South Gippsland Conservation Society, 2007), 97 pp. Details
  • Fletcher, Meredith, Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley (Clayton (Vic.): Monash University Publishing in association with State Library of Victoria, 2014), 306 pp. Details
  • Latreille, A., Kindred spirits: a botanical correspondence, letters by Jean Galbraith, drawings by Joan Law-Smith (South Yarra, Vic.: Australian Garden History Society, 1999), 223 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Aston, H. I., 'Jean Galbraith 28 March 1906-2 January 1999: a tribute', The Victorian naturalist, 116 (1999), 73-5. Details
  • Fletcher, Meredith, 'Becoming 'Correa':Jean Galbraith and 'Australian Native Flowers', La Trobe Journal, 84 (2010), 11-22. Details
  • Galbraith, Jean, 'Botanists and the FNCV - the first 30 years', The Victorian naturalist, 97 (3) (1980), 114-120. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden, 'Of Victorian specimens and species: the naming of Dampiera galbraithiana in honour of Jean Galbraith', The Victorian naturalist, 143 (3) (2017), 76-80. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • Latreille, Anne, 'Botanist radiated enthusiasm [Jean Galbraith - Obituary]', The Australian (1999), 10. Details

Resources

Reviews

  • Fletcher, Meredith, Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley (2014)
    Martin, Susan K., Australian Historical Studies, 46 (2), (2015), 334-5. Details

See also

  • Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: the Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 430 pp. Details
  • Houghton, Sheila, '"If it is not against the rules": women in the FNCV 1880 - 1980', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 290-306. Details

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