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Winifred Waddell

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Waddell taught mathematics in Melbourne before she retired. She worked with native-plant preservation groups during the 1950s. "In all weathers you will find Miss Waddell peering round In odd places, on a disused railway line, in the middle of a racecourse, on the edge of an old gold mine in a lovely
125:. She formed the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria, a society which was based on community dedicated to the preservation of Australian native plants. A Wildflower Sanctuary, named Winifred Waddell Wildflower Sanctuary. 147:
Waddell noticed the disappearance of native flora and destruction of bushland in Victoria, and formed a Wildflower Preservation Group of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 1952.
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Waddell was the eldest of four children, born in an area called Head's Nook. She attended Carlisle High School for Girls, and won many prizes, including for mathematics and botany.
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on 1 January 1964 for her work in preservation of natural flora. She was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion of the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria.
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valley or in a creek bank for 'survivals'", noted one newspaper profile in 1954. She was responsible for securing the first wildflower sanctuary, at
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Illustrations of the British Flora: a series of wood engravings with dissection of British Plants.
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Waddell has hand coloured a number of water coloured engravings in a book called
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English-Australian
botany
MBE
Cumberland, England
botanist
Tallarook, Victoria
MBE



"From Head's Nook to the high plains: Winifred Waddell and the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria"
ISSN
1033-3673
JSTOR
24918760




"The Winifred Waddell Wildflower Sanctuary"
"Wille Group | Bio21 Molecular Science & Biotechnology Institute"



"Her hobby – saving our wildflowers"
Trove
"Personal"
Trove
"Victoria's Orchids Are Vanishing"

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