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Agnes Adelaide Donaldson

Agnes Adelaide Donaldson was an Australian botanical collector, governess, and sheep station owner. Part of the expansive network of collectors established by Ferdinand von Mueller to botanically describe and categorise the flora of Australia, she was the earliest recorded woman, and one of the earliest recorded people, to collect plant material around Alpha.

Life
Donaldson was born to pastoralists Hastings Alfred Elms (1832–1910), and Janet Beveridge Elms (1838–1899) in Smeaton, Victoria. At this time it is claimed that he employed Breaker Morant. In 1946 she moved close to Rockhampton to receive medical treatment and died in July 1948. ==Botanical legacy==
Botanical legacy
As part of Ferdinand von Mueller's plan to write a write a flora of Australia, he needed to recruit plant collectors from across the continent. He therefore advertised in regional Queensland newspapers, including in Rockhampton, requesting for people to send him plant specimens. Today her specimens are cared for in the collections of the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.{{cite web ==References==
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