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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-03-26 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2026-04-28 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006337b.htm person White Mary Elizabeth AM AACR2 5 January 1926 5 August 2018 Place of Birth Southern Rhodesia Place of Death New South Wales, Australia Palaeobotanist Mary White was a Palaeobotanist who published a number of books on Australian paleobotany including The Greening of Gondwana - The 400 Million Year Story of Australia's Plants (1986) and the Eureka prize winning After the Greening: The browning of Australia (1994). In addition to her publications Mary White was employed as a consultant by the Bureau of Mineral Resources and as a research associate for the Australian Museum in Sydney. The Museum has a collection of over 12,000 plant fossils assembled by White. 1956 1980 Career position - Consultant, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra 1975 1984 Career position - Curator and Research Associate, Australia Museum, Sydney 1986 1986 Publication - Book: "The greening of Gondwana - The 400 Million Year Story of Australia's Plants" 1994 1994 Publication - Book: "After the Greening: The browning of Australia" 1995 1995 Award - Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc), Macquarie University 1999 1999 Award - Riversleigh Medal, The Riversleigh Society 1999 1999 Award - Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc), Queensland University of Technology 2001 2001 Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 8 Jun 2009 8 Jun 2009 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to botany as a researcher and through the promotion of increased understanding and awareness of the natural world 2010 2010 Award - Lifetime of conservation award, Australian Geographic Society Australian Museum (1827 - )

Curator and Research Associate 1975 - 1984; the Museum holds White's collection of over 12,000 specimens of plant fossils

 Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1904 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal 2001

 Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Commonwealth of Australia (1946 - 1992)

Consultant 1956 - 1980s

 'White, Mary Elizabeth', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology White, Mary Elizabeth Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: 2010 AG Awards Lifetime of Conservation: Mary White 2010 AG Awards Lifetime of Conservation: Mary White Australian Geographic 2010 Australian Geographic Journal Article: Palaeobotany and Palynology in Australia: A Historical Review Jersey, N Palaeobotany and Palynology in Australia: A Historical Review Netherlands Elsevier 1968 Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 6 2 111 - 136 Book: Listen... our land is crying: Australia's environment: problems and solutions White, Mary E. Listen... our land is crying: Australia's environment: problems and solutions Kenthurst, N.S.W. Kangaroo Press 1997 Book: After the greening : the browning of Australia White, Mary Elizabeth After the greening : the browning of Australia Kenthurst, NSW Kangaroo Press 1994 Book: The greening of Gondwana White, Mary Elizabeth The greening of Gondwana 2nd Chatswood, NSW Reed 1994 Resource: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Queen's Birthday 2009: M-Z] Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Queen's Birthday 2009: M-Z] Canberra Governor General's Office 2009 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010