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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-04-29 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-05-01 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007674b.htm person Brims Margaret Helen AACR2 23 April 1932 23 December 2018 Place of Birth Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Perth, Western Australia, Australia Mycologist Occupational therapist Myxomycetologist Margaret Brims, a volunteer at the Western Australian Herbarium for 21 years, made a major contribution to the knowledge of Australian myxomycetes (slime moulds). Initially working as an occupational therapist at the Royal Perth Hospital, in 1972 she started a business supplying wildflowers and floral arrangements in her local area. By the time she sold the business in 1989 customers included clients interstate and overseas. Brims joined the Western Australian Herbarium as a volunteer in 1990, undertaking general curation of the collection and specialising in daisies (Asteraceae). Within a few years she became fascinated in myxomycetes. There being no local experts in slime moulds, she taught herself how to collect them (including the substrate): her husband Alex was a willing colleague in her field work including in New South Wales and Tasmania. She also learned to identify them, which involved the use of several types of microscope, and culture them. In this work she built up an international network of professional collaborators. Brims was closely involved in the international Eumycetosoan Project to produce a world-wide inventory of myxomycetes. During her time at the Herbarium, Brims increased the Herbarium's holdings of slime mould species from fewer than 100 to more than 625 specimens, and the number known from Western Australia to over 140. The myxomycete species Trichia brimsiorum after Margaret and her husband Alex. 1990 2011 Career position - Volunteer, Western Australian Herbarium 2002 2002 Career event - Attended 4th International Congress on Systematics and Ecology of Myxomycetes, Brussels 2010 2010 Award - Volunteer of the Year, Western Australian Herbarium Western Australian Herbarium, Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (1929 - )

Volunteer specialising in Myxomycota 1990 - 2011

 'Brims, Margaret Helen', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brims, Margaret Helen Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Moist chamber and field collections of myxomycetes from the northern Simpson Desert, Australia Davidson, E. M., Davidson, P. J. M. and Brims, M. H. Moist chamber and field collections of myxomycetes from the northern Simpson Desert, Australia 2008 Australasian mycologist 27 129-35 Journal Article: New additions to the Myxomycota od Australia McHugh, R., Mitchell, D. W., Brims, M. H. and Stephenson, S. L. New additions to the Myxomycota od Australia 2009 Australasian mycologist 28 56-64 Journal Article: New records of Australian Myxomycota McHugh, R., Stephenson, S. L., Mitchell, D. W. and Brims, M. H. New records of Australian Myxomycota 2003 New Zealand journal of botany 41 487-500 Journal Article: Myxomycota census of Western Australia Knight, K. J.; and Brims, M. H. Myxomycota census of Western Australia 2010 Nuytsia 20 283-307 Journal Article: Margaret Helen Brims 23 April 1932 - 23 December 2018 Davidson, Elaine; Knight, Karina; and Hart, Roz Margaret Helen Brims 23 April 1932 - 23 December 2018 2020 Western Australian naturalist 31 3 182-6