‘Eriostemon hillibrandi’
Date
1916
Creator
Margaret Ethel Hayter Reed (1900 - 1966, Australian) , Florey, Physician
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 185mm
width (paper support): 185mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Dried and pressed plant specimens from an Australian herbarium, collected by Ethel Florey within a school notebook. The accompanying text identifies the main specimen as Eriostemen hillibrandi (Eriostemon australasius ?) and there is a second plant, probably the common oat grass Avena fatua.
Inscribed in ink above: ‘September 14th’ [1916]. The botany notebook is headed ‘Ethel Reed VI Class Tormore House’. [Tormore House School, Adelaide, South Australia] and was endorsed by a teacher, C.M. Williams on 17 November 1916.
Margaret Ethel Hayter Reed (later Florey) (1900-1966) Australian physician and penicillin researcher. She married Howard Florey in 1926.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968) Australian experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
Inscribed in ink above: ‘September 14th’ [1916]. The botany notebook is headed ‘Ethel Reed VI Class Tormore House’. [Tormore House School, Adelaide, South Australia] and was endorsed by a teacher, C.M. Williams on 17 November 1916.
Margaret Ethel Hayter Reed (later Florey) (1900-1966) Australian physician and penicillin researcher. She married Howard Florey in 1926.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968) Australian experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
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