- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0047
Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring
- Married name Calvert, Caroline
- Born 25 February 1834, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia
- Died 28 April 1872
- Occupation Botanical artist, Illustrator, Naturalist, Writer
Summary
Caroline Atkinson was home-educated in New South Wales, a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Horticultural Magazine.
Details
Taught by her mother, Atkinson developed a keen interest in botany and zoology. She wrote popular articles on botany, made drawings and sent numerous specimens to eminent botanists including William Woolls and Ferdinand von Mueller (q.v.). She was also an able taxidermist.
Atkinson was commemorated in the naming of the Loranthaceous genus Atkinsonia, also Erechtites atkinsoniae and Epacris calvertiana. A horticulturally distinct fern, ranking as a form of Doodia caudata, was named Doodia atkinsonii in her honour.
Atkinson married James Snowdon Calvert.
Archival resources
- Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
- Macleay Museum
- National Library of Australia
- State Library of New South Wales
- Royal Australian Historical Society
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
Published resources
- Book
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Resource Section
- Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring (1834-1872), naturalist and writer, Chisholm, A.H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030060b.htm
- Journal Article
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Resource
- Trove: Atkinson, Louisa (18340225-18720428), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-471408
- Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html