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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-02-19 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006279b.htm person Richards Anne Frances AACR2 14 August 1845 23 December 1930 Place of Birth England Place of Death South Australia, Australia Botanical collector Annie Richards, who came to South Australia as a child, lived in rural districts where her husband, police trooper Thomas Paul Richards (1842 - 1904) was posted. After 17 years in Fowler Bay they moved to Port Augusta, Georgetown, Mount Barker and a number of other places. Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria, as are some collected by her husband. National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 400 of Richards's specimens are in the Herbarium.

 'Richards, Anne Frances (Annie)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Richards, Anne Frances (Annie) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Ever lastings: becoming Annie Richards, the flower hunter Cross, Roger Ever lastings: becoming Annie Richards, the flower hunter Port Adelaide Greenhill Publishing 2024 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