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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-04-10 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-04-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007663b.htm person Edinger Daphne Joan Choules AACR2 Choules, Daphne 13 December 1927 18 March 2020 Place of Birth Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United Kingdom Place of Death Western Australia, Australia Entomologist Teacher Botanical collector Naturalist Daphne Edinger was a naturalist who made significant contributions to the study of Western Australia's flora and fauna. Her initial career as an entomologist was cut short when she married and was required to resign from the public service. She became Head teacher of biology at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Perth, retiring in 1982. Edinger's life-long interest in natural history prompted her in 1979 to join the first expedition organised by the Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society to the Fitzgerald River National Park. On a subsequent expedition a fellow participant was Kevin Kenneally: they forged a fruitful collaboration of over 35 years. In 1986 Edinger became Honorary Research Associate at the Western Australian Herbarium where she provided invaluable support to Kenneally, Bruce Maslin and other botanists. She was often in the field with these colleagues. The Herbarium holds over 400 specimens of which Edinger was the sole collector, and over 7,000 collected with others. Many of these were of poorly known or collected plants, often geographically restricted, and a number of types. Edinger frequently took part in field work organised by Landscope Expeditions, a citizen science joint venture between the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management and the University of Western Australia. From 1995 to 1996 Edinger was President of the Western Australian Naturalists Club, and organised for the Club many of its excursions to remote parts of Western Australia. 1949 1949 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia 1950 1951 Career position - Entomologist, Western Australian Department of Agriculture 1967 1972 Career position - Head teacher of biology, Presbyterian Ladies college 1974 1982 Career position - Head teacher of biology, Presbyterian Ladies college 1979 1979 Life event - Participated in Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society inaugural expedition, to Fitzgerald River National Park 1982 1982 Life event - Retired 1983 1983 Life event - Participated in Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society expedition, Walcott Bay, Kimberley, Western Australia 1986 c. 2006 Career position - Honorary Research Associate, Western Australian Herbarium 1990 1990 Award - Outstanding Service Award for work at Herbarium, Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management 1993 1993 Career position - Foundation Member and Secretary, Kimberley Society 1995 1996 Career position - President, Western Australian Naturalists Club 1996 1996 Award - CSIRO External Medal for Research Achievement (shared with Kevin Kenneally and Tim Willing), for the book Broome and beyond 2000 2000 Career event - Joined Landscope Expeditions, Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management and University of Western Australia 2004 2004 Career event - Participated in vegetation surveys of the of Black Range and Lake Mason with Gilbert Marsh and Mark Cowan 2007 2007 Award - Conservation Volunteer of the Year (for contributions to the Landscope program), Western Australia Department of the Environment and Conservation 2007 2008 Career event - Participated in taxonomic and genetic population sampling of Mulga wattles in the Pilbara, Goldfields, Murchison and Ashburton regions with Bruce Maslin and Gilbert Marsh Maslin, Bruce (1946 - ) Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society Inc (1979 - )

Participated in Expeditions to Fitzgerald River National Park 1979 and Walcott Bay, Kimberley 1983

 Western Australian Naturalists Club (1924 - )

President 1995 - 1996

 Western Australian Herbarium, Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (1929 - )

Honorary Research Associate 1986 - c.2006; the Herbarium holds over 7,000 specimens collected by Edinger (many jointly)

 Marsh, Loisette Matilda (1929 - 2021)

Fellow student and colleague

 'Edinger, Daphne Joan Choules', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Edinger, Daphne Joan Choules Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: An autumn survey of vascular flora, birds, fungi, myxomycetes and lichens of Baledjie Lake Nature Reserve and Baladjie Rock Edinger, Daphne Choules An autumn survey of vascular flora, birds, fungi, myxomycetes and lichens of Baledjie Lake Nature Reserve and Baladjie Rock 2013 Western Australian naturalist 29 2 126-41 Journal Article: Biodiversity in the southern rangelands: variation in biota over time and space on the Black Range and Lake Mason stations, Murchison Bioregion, Western Australia Cowan, Mark A., Edinger, Daphne and Coate, Kevin Biodiversity in the southern rangelands: variation in biota over time and space on the Black Range and Lake Mason stations, Murchison Bioregion, Western Australia 2017 Conservation Science Western Australia 12 1 40 Journal Article: A botanical survey of Walcott Inlet, Kimberley, Western Australia Kenneally, Kevin F. and Edinger, Daphne Choules A botanical survey of Walcott Inlet, Kimberley, Western Australia 1993 Western Australian naturalist 19 2 84-139 Book: Broome and beyond: plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia Kenneally, Kevin F., Edinger, Daphne Choules and Willing, Tim Broome and beyond: plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia Como, W.A. Department of Conservation and Lands 1996 Journal Article: Daphne Edinger 13 December 1927 - 18 March 2020 Kenneally, Kevin F. Daphne Edinger 13 December 1927 - 18 March 2020 2020 Western Australian naturalist 31 4 265-74 Journal Article: Daphne Joan (Choules) Edinger 13 December 1927 - 18 March 2020 Kenneally, Kevin Daphne Joan (Choules) Edinger 13 December 1927 - 18 March 2020 2020 Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter 185 57-9