Person

Allender, Marie (1921 - 1995)

Born
8 January 1921
Died
17 September 1995
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Naturalist

Summary

Marie Allender was a naturalist who made a significant contribution to the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. For 35 years she was Excursion Secretary for the Club. In this role she made all the arrangements for over 500 Club excursions ranging from monthly day trips to extended annual, interstate and overseas travel. Such travel included Western Australia (1963 and 1969), Queensland (1966 and 1978), New Zealand (1973) and Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands (1983). For many years Allender also carried responsibility for the finances relating to these excursions. Her other roles in the Club included Secretary of the Botany Group from 1957 to 1963, and 40 years as a member of Council. The National Herbarium of Victoria, where Allender was Assistant from 1957 to 1980, holds over 500 of her collections, mostly "odd specimens that puzzled me" and collected while on Club excursions.

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Chronology

1947 - 1964
Career position - Member, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1954 - 1989
Career position - Excursion Secretary, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1954 - 1994
Career position - Member of Council, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1957 - 1963
Career position - Secretary, Botany Group, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1957 - 1974
Career position - Herbarium Assistant, National Herbarium of Victoria
1964 - 1995
Award - Honorary Member, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1974 - 1980
Career position - Technical Assistant, National Herbarium of Victoria

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Published resources

Books

  • Houghton, Sheila and Presland, Gary, Leaves from Our History: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1880-2005 (Box Hill: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 2005), 30 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Christianson, I. G.; Clayton, M. N.; and Allender, B. M.: photographs by Bruce Fuhrer eds, Seaweeds of Australia (Sydney: Reed, 1981), 112 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • McInnes, D. E., 'Marie Allender: a last excursion', The Victorian naturalist, 112 (6) (1995), 267. Details

See also

  • Presland, Gary, Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880 - 2015 (Blackburn, Vic.: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 2016), 275 pp. Details

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