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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-08-07 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006107b.htm person Hussey Jessie AACR2 5 June 1862 16 March 1899 Place of Birth Port Elliott, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Port Elliott, South Australia, Australia Botanical collector Jessie Hussey was an enthusiastic and skilled plant collector, particularly of algae, in the southeast of South Australia during the 1890s. She sent many of her specimens to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne for identification. He in turn sent the algal specimens to phycologist Jacob Agardh in Sweden and she continued to collect for Agardh and other European phycologists after Mueller's death. Hussey was a member of the Field Naturalist's Section of the Royal Society of South Australia and an Honorary Member of the Mueller Botanical Club of Western Australia. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 700 of her specimens National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 700 of Hussey's specimens are in the Herbarium

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 Hussey, Jessie (18620605-18990316)

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 'Hussey, Jessie', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hussey, Jessie Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Jessie Louisa Hussey Kraehenbuehl, D. N. Jessie Louisa Hussey Sydney Academic Press 1981 People and Plants in Australia D. J. Carr and S. G. M. Carr 388-98 Book: Ladies in the laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Creese, Mary R. S.; and Creese, Thomas M. Ladies in the laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Lanham, Maryland Scarecrow Press 2010 Journal Article: Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register 2014 Muelleria 32 92-172