In 1874 Sarah Brooks, with her mother and brother, walked nearly 700 kilometers out to the land of the Noongar peopleĀ in the south-eastern extremities of the South-west Australian Floristic Region. It is still unclear how and why Sarah, an educated, accomplished, single woman, spent the last fifty-four years of her life out in this isolated place.
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Storied Botanical Collections: The Life & Curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Swales
This blog post is an excerpt drawn from my thesis where I foreground the life and curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Newton Swales (1901-2001), the first woman to curate the McGill University Herbarium.