Olive Blanche Davies
Olive Blanche Davies MSc (27 October 1884 Toorak, Victoria - 1976/7 Adelaide) [1] was an Australian botanist and botanical artist, noted for being co-author with Alfred Ewart of their 1917 book The Flora of the Northern Territory, and for producing many of the illustrations.[2] Olive was the youngest of six children born to Elizabeth Locke Mercer (*c1850) from Kirkcudbright and Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850-1912) [3] of Geelong, the family living at Toorak, Victoria.[4][5]
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.[6][7][8]
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 [9] By the end of World War I he had risen to the rank of captain,[10] 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.[11] In 1924 he was appointed on a temporary basis as senior master at Melbourne High School.[12]
References
- ^ http://gw5.geneanet.org/yuille?lang=nl;pz=thomas;nz=zuill;ocz=0;p=olive+blanche;n=davies
- ^ Australasian Herbaria
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ Australian Pioneer Families
- ^ Flora of the Northern Territory
- ^ The Anatomy of Caryodes dufresnyi
- ^ Conchology
- ^ http://biostor.org/reference/58499
- ^ The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria)
- ^ Australian War Memorial
- ^ Questia
- ^ Victoria Government Gazette
- ^ International Plant Names Index. O.B.Davies.
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