Person

Lithgow, Muriel Grace

Occupation
Natural history artist and Naturalist

Summary

Grace Lithgow is a naturalist and natural history artist whose interests lie in the botany and zoology of southeast Queensland. She has illustrated a wide range of native flora, fungi and animal fossils. Her illustrations have been reproduced in her own books, in which she often includes details such as associated butterflies, and those of others writers. Lithgow has also made significant collections of local species: over 1,000 insect specimens were lodged in the Queensland Museum, the Queensland Herbarium holds over 500 plant specimens. Collections of frogs, freshwater snails and butterflies are in other repositories. Lithgow is an active contributor to the Chinchilla Field Naturalists' Club and the Wildlife Artists Society of Queensland.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

2007
Award - Queensland Natural history Award, Queensland Naturalists' Club

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Books

  • Lithgow, M. G., 60 wattles of the Chinchilla and Murilla Shires (Chinchilla, Qld: G. Lithgow, 1997), 80 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'The Queensland Natural History Award, 2007 [awarded to Muriel Grace Lithgow]', Queensland naturalist, 45 (1/3) (2007), 1-3. Details

Helen Cohn

Created: 26 May 2022

EOAS ID: biogs/P006976b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006976b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260