Olive Blanche Davies
Olive Blanche Davies MSc (27 October 1884 – 20 October 1976) was an Australian botanist and botanical artist who co-authored with Alfred Ewart the 1917 book The Flora of the Northern Territory. She made many of the illustrations.[1]
Olive was born on 27 October 1884 in Toorak, Victoria,[1] the youngest of six children of Elizabeth Locke Mercer (*c1850) from Kirkcudbright and Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850–1912)[2] of Geelong.[3][4]
She was a government research scholar studying biology at Melbourne University, and wrote a paper in 1911 on Petterd's semi-slug Cystopelta petterdi, and another in 1914 on Caryodes dufresnii, a large land mollusk native to Tasmania.[5][6][7]
On 22 December 1915 at 'Cluden', in Brighton, Australia, Olive Blanche Davies married Arthur Lyle Rossiter, a lieutenant in the Australian Expeditionary Force, and elder son of Edward Lyle Rossiter of Elsternwick. Arthur had been born in 1888 in Ballarat[8] By the end of World War I he had risen to the rank of captain,[9] and after the war he gave a lecture on gas warfare at Melbourne University, from which he had graduated an MSc. in 1911 and had been a demonstrator in physics from 1913. He had served as a gas officer in the 4th Australian Division in France. In 1924 he was appointed on a temporary basis as senior master at Melbourne High School.[10] She died in Adelaide on 20 October 1976.[11]
References
- 1 2 "Davies, Olive Blanche". anbg.gov.au.
- ↑ Freeman, R. D. "Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850–1912)". Cultural Advice. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ "James Stewart Mercer, Christopher Frederick Metelmann, Louis Meyer, Jonathan Mitchell, Maurice Joseph Morton, Patrick Mullavey". oocities.org.
- ↑ Ewart, Alfred J.; Cheel, Edwin; Davies, Olive B.; Hamilton, Arthur Andrew; Maiden, J. H. (22 January 2024). The flora of the Northern Territory. McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers.
- ↑ Davies, O. B. (22 January 2024). "BioStor-Lite". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 27: 19–24.
- ↑ "| Shells For Sale | Conchology". conchology.be.
- ↑ Davies, O. B. (22 January 2024). "BioStor-Lite". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 24: 331–342.
- ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria)
- ↑ "Australian War Memorial".
- ↑ Victoria Government Gazette
- ↑ "Family Notices". The Age. 21 October 1976 – via Ryerson Index.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. O.B.Davies.