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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2003-11-25 human Ailie Smith and Annette Alafaci updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004511b.htm person Stone Ilma Grace AACR2 Balfe, Ilma Grace 11 June 1913 4 January 2001 Place of Birth Brunswick, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Victoria, Australia Bryologist Botanist Ilma Stone was a brilliant scholar. She was dux of her school at age 16 and completed a Master of Science (Botany) at the University of Melbourne by the age of 20. Her Masters dissertation was on disease - producing fungi in ornamental plants and was published in 1935. Ilma married Alan Stone in 1936 and spent the next 20 years away from research, raising her family.

In 1957, at the age of 44, Ilma Stone returned to botanical research. First she worked as a part-time demonstrator and researcher at the University of Melbourne. After completing her PhD in 1963, she was appointed to a full-time position. Stone's research concentrated on Australian ferns and then mosses. In 1976 the book The Mosses of Southern Australia was released and is still the only book to specialize in Australian mosses. It took Stone and Dr George Scott around five years to write.

Stone retired in 1978, after which she was made Senior Associate and later Associate Professor of the Department of Botany at the University of Melbourne. Of her 70 published papers, 11 were written while Stone was in her 80s. Several genera and species of moss have been named in her honour (e.g. Stonea and Stoneobryum) and was made an honorary member of the British Bryological Society in 1982. The principal repository of her collections, approximately 15,000 specimens, is the National Herbarium of Victoria.

1934 1934 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1957 1978 Career position - Demonstrator (later Associate Professor), Department of Botany, University of Melbourne 1963 1963 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne 1978 1978 Life event - Retired 1982 2001 Award - Honorary Member, British Bryological Society 1989 1989 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds c.15,000 of Stone's specimens

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Demonstrator (later Associate Proffessor), Department of Botany 1957 - 1978

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 'Stone, Ilma Grace', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Stone, Ilma Grace Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Obituary: Dr Ilma Grace Stone (nee Balfe), Expert on Australian mosses Stone, Claire Obituary: Dr Ilma Grace Stone (nee Balfe), Expert on Australian mosses 2001 The Age Journal Article: The mosses of the Northern Territory Catcheside, D. G. and Stone, I. G. The mosses of the Northern Territory 1988 Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 11 1-17 Journal Article: Recollections and a tribute to Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, 31 May 1907 - 1 June 1994 Stone, Ilma G.; Bell, Graham; and Scott, George A. M. Recollections and a tribute to Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, 31 May 1907 - 1 June 1994 1994 Australasian bryological newsletter 31 7-11 Journal Article: Census of the mosses of Western Australia Stoneburger, Ann; Wyatt, Robert; Catcheside, David G.; and Stone, Ilma G. Census of the mosses of Western Australia 1993 Bryologist 96 1 86-101 Book: The Mosses of Southern Australia Scott, George A. M.; and Stone, Ilma G.: illustrations by Rosser, Celia The Mosses of Southern Australia London: New York Academic Press 1976 Journal Article: A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday Scott, G. A. M. [and others] A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday 1993 Australasian bryological newsletter 29 1-8 Journal Article: A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday Dalton, P. J. (editor) A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday Australasian bryological newsletter 29:1-8 29 1-8 Journal Article: Mosses, liverworts and hornworts: significant bryophyte collections at the University of Melbourne Herbarium Brown, Gillian Mosses, liverworts and hornworts: significant bryophyte collections at the University of Melbourne Herbarium 2011 University of Melbourne Collections 8 -7 Journal Article: Obituary: Ilma Grace Stone (1913-2001) Seppelt, R. D.; Beever, J. E.; and Milne, J. Obituary: Ilma Grace Stone (1913-2001) 2002 Journal of Bryology 24 2 173-5 Journal Article: A Tribute - Ilma G Stone 1913-2001 Beever, Jessica E. A Tribute - Ilma G Stone 1913-2001 2001 Australasian Bryological Newsletter 43 2-5 Journal Article: A brief history of bryological exploration in Queensland Franks, Andrew J. A brief history of bryological exploration in Queensland 2020 Queensland naturalist 58 4/6 25-47