Person

Bate, Mary Harriet (1855 - 1951)

Born
1 October 1855
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
29 December 1951
Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector

Summary

Mary Bate collected plant specimens from 1881 to 1884 for Ferdinand von Mueller between the Tilba coast and Mt Dromedary, New South Wales. She collected types of Myoporum bateae F.Muell. (1882), Bryum bateae Müll. Hall (1898), named for her, and Eucalyptus bosistoana F.Muell. (1895). Five letters survive from Mueller to Mary Bates, and three letters from Mary Bates to Mueller. Over 350 of Bates' specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

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Chronology

1882
Taxonomy event - Myoporum bateae F.Muell. was named for Bate
1895
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus bosistoana F. Muell., of which Bate collected a syntype.

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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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
  • McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

  • Olsen, Penny, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 248 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Maroske, Sara, '"The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 13-34. Details
  • Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison, 'Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 92-172. Details

Rebecca Rigby, Neville Walsh

Created: 21 June 2012, Last modified: 21 May 2024

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