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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/P006108b.htm person McCann Annie Bellew AACR2 1838 20 June 1924 Place of Birth Rockmarshall, Ireland Place of Death Albury, New South Wales, Australia Botanical collector Annie McCann came to Australia with her family in 1858, settling at Snowy Creek in north eastern Victoria, running a pub while McCann taught the local children. She collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands, sending them to the Melbourne Herbarium for identification. Her liverwort and moss specimens were forwarded to European experts for examination. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888. After her husband's death she moved to Albury where she continued to teach and ran a post office. National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 200 of McCann's specimens are in the Herbarium

 McCann, Annie Bellew (1838-19240620)

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 'McCann, Annie Bellew', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McCann, Annie Bellew Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Maroske, Sara "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 13-34 Journal Article: Additions and corrections to a biographical register of Ferdinand Mueller's female plant collectors, and observations on the limits of specimen databases Maroske, Sara, Vaughan, Alison snd Le Get, Rebecca Additions and corrections to a biographical register of Ferdinand Mueller's female plant collectors, and observations on the limits of specimen databases 2025 Muelleria 44 11-22 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