Biographical entry Carr, Stella Grace Maisie (Maisie) (1912 - 1988)

Summary

Stella Grace M. (Maisie) Carr was an ecologist best remembered for her work on the Bogong High Plains during the 1940s. She also spent many years studying Eucalyptus. With her husband, D.J. Carr (q.v.), she edited People and Plants in Australia and Plants and Man in Australia.

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Events

1935 - 1938

Career position - Demonstrator in the Botany at the University of Melbourne

1936

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1938 - 1941

Career position - Senior Demonstrator at the University of Melbourne

1941 - 1948

Career position - Ecological studies for the Soil Conservation Board of the Hume catchment

1949 - 1952

Career position - Lecturer in Plant Taxonomy and Ecology

1952 - 1960

Career position - Senior Lecturer

1960 - 1967

Career position - Belfast

1967 - 1988

Career position - Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Gillbank, Linden, 'Into the Land of the Mountain Cattlemen: Maisie Fawcett's Ecological Investigations on the Bogong High Plains', in Farley Kelly (ed.), On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 133-154. Details

Edited Books

• Carr, D. J.; Carr, S. G. M. (ed.), Plants and Man in Australia, Academic Press, Sydney, 1981. Details
• Carr, D. J.; Carr, S.G.M. (ed.), People and Plants in Australia, Academic Press, Sydney, 1981. Details

Journal Articles

• Carr, D. J., 'Obituary: Stella Grace Carr (1912-88)', Australasian Systematic Botany Newsletter, vol. 58, 1989, pp. 21-27. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Carr, Stella Grace Maisie (1912-1988), Botanist', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 191-192. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Carr, S G M', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616845. Details

See also

• Ashton, D. H.; Ducker, S. C., 'John Stewart Turner 1908-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 3, 1993, pp. 278-290. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9930930278.htm. Details
• Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: the Antiquarian Imagination in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/Melbourne, 1996, 430 pp. Details