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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-02-19 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006278b.htm person Knight Ann Augusta AACR2 27 June 1840 18 August 1904 Place of Birth Albany, Western Australia, Australia Place of Death Albany, Western Australia, Australia Botanical collector Gussie Knight collected plant specimens around Porongurup in Western Australia where she lived with her husband William Grills Knight (1839 - 1903) and family from 1863, and later from King George Sound. In the early 1807s, they moved to Albany where William served three terms as mayor. Gussie was a skilled botanical artist, winning a bronze medal at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Her plant collections were sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 200 of Knight's specimens are in the Herbarium.

 'Knight, Ann Augusta (Gussie)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Knight, Ann Augusta (Gussie) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 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