Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. She supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development. Potter was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework. She restored and preserved the farms that she bought or managed, making sure that each farm house had in it a piece of antique Lakeland furniture.
Lake District conservation
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Beatrix Potter | Lake District conservation
She supported he National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Yes, she had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals she supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development Yes She supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development. Potter was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework. She restored and preserved the farms that she bought or managed, making sure that each farm house had in it a piece of antique Lakeland furniture. She supported the efforts of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
where do guinea pigs come from in the wild
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They originated in the Andes of South America
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how do they look like?
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Guinea pigs are large for rodents; the common pet breeds weigh between when full grown and measure between in length
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which club is associated with it?
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Cavy clubs dedicated to the showing and breeding of guinea pigs have been established worldwide.
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what reference do they have in literature?
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"The Fairy Caravan", a novel by Beatrix Potter, and Michael Bond's Olga da Polga series for children, both feature guinea pigs as the protagonist. Another appearance is in "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis: in the first of his "The Chronicles of Narnia" series, a guinea pig is the first creature to travel to the Wood between the Worlds.
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is there any specific program for their breeding?
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Yes, Peruvian research universities, especially La Molina National Agrarian University, began experimental programs
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you have mentioned three authors above; has the first one done any scientific illustrations?
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Yes, a collection of her fungus paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth
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and any conservation work?
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She was notable in observing the problems of afforestation, preserving the intake grazing lands, and husbanding the quarries and timber on these farms. All her farms were stocked with Herdwick sheep and frequently with Galloway cattle.
Beatrix Potter | Lake District conservation
Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. She supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development. Potter was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework. She restored and preserved the farms that she bought or managed, making sure that each farm house had in it a piece of antique Lakeland furniture.
Beatrix Potter | Lake District conservation
Potter was interested in preserving not only the Herdwick sheep but also the way of life of fell farming. In 1930 the Heelises became partners with the National Trust in buying and managing the fell farms included in the large Monk Coniston Estate. The estate was composed of many farms spread over a wide area of north-western Lancashire, including the Tarn Hows. Potter was the "de facto" estate manager for the Trust for seven years until the National Trust could afford to repurchase most of the property from her. Potter's stewardship of these farms earned her full regard, but she was not without her critics, not the least of which were her contemporaries who felt she used her wealth and the position of her husband to acquire properties in advance of their being made public.
Beatrix Potter | Lake District conservation
Hers was the largest gift at that time to the National Trust, and it enabled the preservation of the land now included in the Lake District National Park and the continuation of fell farming. The central office of the National Trust in Swindon was named "Heelis" in 2005 in her memory. William Heelis continued his stewardship of their properties and of her literary and artistic work for the twenty months he survived her. When he died in August 1945, he left the remainder to the National Trust.
Beatrix Potter | Later life
Potter later gave her other mycological and scientific drawings to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, where mycologists still refer to them to identify fungi. There is also a collection of her fungus paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland, donated by Charles McIntosh. In 1967, the mycologist W.P.K. Findlay included many of Potter's beautifully accurate fungus drawings in his "Wayside & Woodland Fungi", thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungus drawings published in a book. In 1997, the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.
Beatrix Potter | Scientific illustrations and work in mycology
Despite her ill-health during her last years at Bendle, Walling continued to write prolifically, rewriting manuscripts, corresponding to newspapers on environmental issues, and trying to republish her books. About a quarter of Walling's designs survive and these are held in the State Library of Victoria and in private collections in Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.
Edna Walling | Conservationist
Beatrix Potter's parents did not discourage higher education. As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely went to university. Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy. Botany was a passion for most Victorians and nature study was a popular enthusiasm. Potter was eclectic in her tastes: collecting fossils, studying archaeological artefacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology. In all these areas, she drew and painted her specimens with increasing skill. By the 1890s, her scientific interests centred on mycology. First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and amateur mycologist, during a summer holiday in Dunkeld in Perthshire in 1892.
Beatrix Potter | Scientific illustrations and work in mycology
Helen Beatrix Potter (, US , 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology.
Beatrix Potter | Introduction
Potter left almost all the original illustrations for her books to the National Trust. The copyright to her stories and merchandise was then given to her publisher Frederick Warne & Co, now a division of the Penguin Group. On 1 January 2014, the copyright expired in the UK and other countries with a 70-years-after-death limit. Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis's former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery. Potter gave her folios of mycological drawings to the Armitt Library and Museum in Ambleside before her death.
Beatrix Potter | Legacy
Ruskin suggested reviving the old craft of hand-spinning and weaving wool; Rawnsley, considering this infeasible, opted for wood carving. He recorded that "a lady was engaged to come down from South Kensington to give a course of lessons in the three villages, and our humble home industry in the lake district was set on foot." Instruction also included techniques for metal repoussé, taught by the Swiss butler from Edith Rawnsley's family home. The young Beatrix Potter holidayed at Wray Castle with her parents in 1882. They met Rawnsley, who became a firm friend, particularly of Beatrix. His views on preserving the natural beauty of the Lake District had a lasting effect on her.
Hardwicke Rawnsley | Vicar of Wray
He was a keen amateur naturalist, with a particular interest in fungi, and was an active associate member of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science; he could not afford the greater cost of ordinary membership. This Society published the Flora of Perthshire, by Francis Buchanan White, in 1898, using records provided by members, including Macintosh. He identified 13 species of fungi previously unknown in the British Isles, four of them new to science. He shared this interest with Beatrix Potter, who had often visited the area since she was a child, and they exchanged specimens and drawings. He left his collection of specimens, together with some botanical illustrations by Beatrix Potter, to Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Charles Macintosh (composer and naturalist) | Introduction
Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her sex and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper, "On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae", to the Linnean Society in 1897. It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper. She subsequently withdrew it, realising that some of her samples were contaminated, but continued her microscopic studies for several more years. Her paper has only recently been rediscovered, along with the rich, artistic illustrations and drawings that accompanied it. Her work is only now being properly evaluated.
Beatrix Potter | Scientific illustrations and work in mycology
There are many interpretations of Potter's literary work, the sources of her art, and her life and times. These include critical evaluations of her corpus of children's literature and Modernist interpretations of Humphrey Carpenter and Katherine Chandler. Judy Taylor, "That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit" (rev. 2002) tells the story of the first publication and many editions. Potter's country life and her farming have been discussed in the work of Susan Denyer and other authors in the publications of The National Trust, such as "Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District" (2004). Potter's work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology are discussed in Linda Lear's books "Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature" (2006) and "Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius" (2008).
Beatrix Potter | Analysis
To celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Cumbrian author and illustrator Beatrix Potter in 2016, the festival launched a student competition Beatrix Potter Reimagined. International comic artists, including Luke McGarry, Duncan Fegredo, Hannah Berry and Charlie Adlard, also contributed artworks that interpreted Beatrix Potter’s tales with a modern comic art style.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival | Beatrix Potter Reimagined
Helen Beatrix Potter was born to wealth and privilege on 28 July 1866 in London to barrister Rupert Potter and his wife Helen (Leech) Potter. Raised by a series of governesses, Beatrix filled her hours with reading, painting, drawing, and tending a schoolroom menagerie of small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Summer holidays in Scotland or the Lake District and long visits to her grandparents' Camfield Place home in Hertfordshire cultivated her love for and observation of the natural world. As a young woman, she was discouraged from seeking higher education, and groomed instead to be a permanent resident and housekeeper in her parents' London home.
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles | Background
In addition scientific research is under way so that suitable methodologies can be identified to conserve Herculaneum's wall paintings, plasters, mosaics, wooden features, structures, etc.
Conservation issues of Pompeii and Herculaneum | Herculaneum Conservation Project
The Beatrix Potter Gallery is a gallery run by the National Trust and situated in a 17th-century stone-built house in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England. It is dedicated to presenting original book illustrations by Beatrix Potter. On display are original sketches and watercolours painted by Potter for her children's stories as well as artifacts and information relating to her life and work. The display changes annually. The 17th-century building is listed grade II. It was at one time the law office of Potter's husband, William Heelis. Its interior remains substantially unaltered.
Beatrix Potter Gallery | Introduction
Among potters who attended her school were John Castle-Harris (a cousin) and Eric Juckert. Her work is held in various public collections: the Australian National Gallery, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Shepparton Art Museum, the Ballarat Art Gallery and the Melbourne College of the Arts. Since 2010 her work has fetched high prices at auction.
Una Deerbon | Legacy
The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust funded the creation of a wildlife pond at Lucy Cavendish in recognition of her contribution to the Lucy Cavendish College, its gardens and the University of Cambridge. The University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) gave her a Medal of Honour in recognition for the donation of her personal library (with books in archaeology, prehistory, history, botany, biology and related sciences) to the Archaeological Unit, Department of Geology and the Botanical Gardens of UTAD.
Jane Renfrew | Awards and accolades
The National Trust's appeal had raised nearly enough before the summer of 1930 and they bought most of the land from Potter – she donated the last part anonymously. When the Trust took over in September it asked Potter to carry on managing the land on its behalf. Bruce Thompson, the National Trust agent for its properties in the north of England, wrote in "The Lake District and the National Trust" in 1936 that "The Tarns and its setting were given to the nation by Sir S. H. Scott in 1930 as part of the Trust's general scheme for securing a large part of the Monk Coniston estate.
Tarn Hows | Beatrix Potter
Woolly ragwort occurs in several protected areas, including The Rock Nature Reserve, Tabletop Nature Reserve, Benambra National Park and Ulandra Nature Reserve in NSW, and in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park in Victoria.
Senecio garlandii | Conservation actions
Beetham took after her artist father and was a talented illustrator, producing several botanical and bird studies. Some of her works are now held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
Lucelle Frances Beetham | Artwork
A large number of water colour paintings, diaries and study notebooks authored by Plymley have survived and are now held by Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury, UK. Plymley studied natural sciences, specialising in entomology. She produced over 400 watercolour paintings, many of which show the life-cycles of butterflies and moths from egg to adult, and which were often drawn from life as she maintained the insects and their food plants through their life-cycle. She kept up with scientific developments and, through her scholarship, was in communication with academics including Frederick William Hope. Her writings survive in 210 notebooks, many of which are not dated.
Katherine Plymley | Paintings, diaries and travel journals
The Currimundi Lake (Kathleen McArthur) Conservation Park is a protected area that is located approximately north of Caloundra, Queensland, Australia. The park's total area is 50 hectares (124 acres). It was first declared as a conservation park in 1994, and is named after Kathleen McArthur. A large percentage of the park is wallum heath, which in turn then supports a large and diverse number of fauna; 353 species, 14 of which are introduced, 25 species are rare or threatened. A vast array of wildflowers may be seen in the park at any time of the year, but are most abundant in late winter to early spring.
Currimundi Lake (Kathleen McArthur) Conservation Park | Introduction
In 1996 he became the Foundation Professor in Environmental Management at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. More recently he has been editor of the journal "Pacific Conservation Biology". In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region. As well as numerous published scientific papers, he has authored and edited several books.
Harry Frederick Recher | Introduction
The National Trust also displays material related to Beatrix Potter at the Beatrix Potter Gallery at Hawkshead.
Hill Top, Cumbria | Related properties
Fewer than 30 images survive from this period. Cameron's output may have dropped in part because of the difficulty working with collodion in the insect-friendly heat where fresh water was less available for washing prints. The botanical painter and biologist Marianne North recounted her time visiting Cameron In Ceylon:The walls of the room were covered with magnificent photographs; others were tumbling about the tables, chairs, and floors with quantities of damp books, all untidy and picturesque; the lady herself with a lace veil on her head and flowing draperies. Her oddities were most refreshing . . . She also made some studies of natives while I was there, and took such a fancy to the back of one of them (which she said was absolutely superb) that she insisted on her son retaining him as her gardener, though she had no garden and he did not know even the meaning of the word.
Julia Margaret Cameron | Later life
" Verticordia penicillaris" is classified as "Priority Four" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.
Verticordia penicillaris | Conservation
The species is classified as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999" and as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia). Much of the central and southern Wheatbelt of Western Australia has been cleared for agriculture, or affected by drought, resulting in the loss of broombush habitat or a reduction in the level of bark and leaf litter necessary to protect the underground orchid and a reduction in the area suitable for translocation. The main threats to the species include lack of suitable habitat, degraded habitat, drought and rising soil salinity.
Rhizanthella gardneri | Conservation status
Ann Verdcourt was the winner of the 'Non-functional' award for her work "Thoughts of Vegetation" in the New Zealand Society of Potters exhibition at the Royal Easter Show in 1995. In 2003, her work "Play" won a Merit Award in the Portage Ceramic Awards.
Ann Verdcourt | Awards
He helped improve the accuracy of her illustrations, taught her taxonomy, and supplied her with live specimens to paint during the winter. Curious as to how fungi reproduced, Potter began microscopic drawings of fungus spores (the agarics) and in 1895 developed a theory of their germination. Through the connections of her uncle Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice-chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation. She did not believe in the theory of symbiosis proposed by Simon Schwendener, the German mycologist, as previously thought; instead, she proposed a more independent process of reproduction.
Beatrix Potter | Scientific illustrations and work in mycology
It is declared an "endangered" species under the commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and "rare" under the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 and now under the "Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016". A major threat is from dieback due to "Phytophthora cinnamomi" (Phytophthora dieback)., and from bushfires.
Daviesia obovata | Conservation status
Hargreaves Ogilvie Webster (born 1909, date of death unknown) was an illustrator and conservationist. He was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. He is noted as a contributing illustrator to "Birds of Western Australia" and for work to protect the fauna of the Southwest Australia ecoregion, especially the noisy scrub-bird ("Atrichornis clamosus"). Webster attended Bunbury High School and Claremont Training College, and completed a degree in Art at the University of Western Australia in 1962. Webster was a Primary School teacher, retiring from that occupation as the Albany Primary School's headmaster in 1974 to pursue his interest in the ornithology. His research on the scrub-bird and other fauna of the region is associated with the establishment of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve.
Harley Webster (illustrator) | Introduction
It is declared an "endangered" species under the commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and "rare" under the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 and now under the "Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016". A major threat is from dieback due to "Phytophthora cinnamomi" (Phytophthora dieback).
Daviesia pseudaphylla | Conservation status
"Prasophyllum maccannii" is listed as "Endangered" under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.
Prasophyllum maccannii | Conservation
In 1930 the Marshall family wanted to sell their Monk Coniston estate. Beatrix Potter's husband, William Heelis of Sawrey, was solicitor for the Marshall family and so was aware of the possibility early on. One of the farms within the estate had previously been owned by Potter's great grandfather and so Beatrix was interested in buying the estate as a whole rather than allowing it to be sold off piecemeal for tourist development; however, she could not afford the whole £15,000–£18,000 asking price without selling other properties that she wanted to keep. Neither the National Trust nor the Forestry Commission could obtain the whole sum quickly enough and Potter's mother would not lend her the money.
Tarn Hows | Beatrix Potter
MacIntyre wrote in 1978 that her books were "a sincere attempt to say something I really believe in. A straight book about Conservation might seem dull, but, as I see it, my "Affable, Amiable Bulldozer Man" sums up the whole subject painlessly." Both "Hugh's Zoo" (1964) and "The Affable, Amiable Bulldozer Man" (1965) had messages about the conservation of Australian native flora and fauna. "Hugh's Zoo" tells of a boy who creates his own menagerie by catching birds and animals in the bush. A dog helps the creatures escape; Hugh is at first distraught, but comes to see that they are happier in their own environment, with others of their kind, and can still be enjoyed there.
Elisabeth MacIntyre | Picture books about conservation
Critically endangered, protected under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.
Galaxias mcdowalli | Conservation
In the later years of her life (over 50), the children's author Beatrix Potter was involved with keeping and breeding Herdwicks, even acting as president of the breed association for a time. Between 1930 and 1938 she won a number of prizes for Herdwick ewes at shows across Cumbria. Upon her death in 1943, she bequeathed fifteen farms - a total of approximately 4,000 acres (16 km²) to the National Trust and, as per her instruction, all continue to graze Herdwick flocks.
Herdwick | Beatrix Potter
It was reported in July 2014 that Beatrix had personally given a number of her own original hand-painted illustrations to the two daughters of Arthur and Harriet Lupton, who were cousins to both Beatrix and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Beatrix's parents lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, West Brompton, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872. Beatrix lived in the house until her marriage in 1913. The house was destroyed in the Blitz. Bousfield Primary School now stands where the house once was. A blue plaque on the school building testifies to the former site of The Potter home.
Beatrix Potter | Early life
Rowley received her bachelor's degree in environmental science at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and her PhD from James Cook University. Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of amphibian decline caused by chytridiomycosis. After finishing her PhD, in 2006 she moved to Cambodia to work for Conservation International as a wildlife biologist. She returned to Australia in 2008, and began working at the Australian Museum. In 2016, she was appointed curator of Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology at the Australian Museum. Her current work concerns a mixture of taxonomy and conservation biology. One of her on-going projects is to search for the Peppered tree frog.
Jodi Rowley | Life and research
The edges of the ruin are contained by concrete up-stands so as to amplify the distinctive curved original brick vaults. A "Victorian" tree-fern garden hints at the era in which the reservoir was built. The eastern chamber has been conserved with new timber columns and a waterproof concrete structure over, stabilising the brickwork and forming the base for the new landscaped park above. Adaptive reuse of this chamber is part of a future stage of works due to funding limitations. The eastern chamber has limited public access due to level changes and hence is not currently open to the public.
Paddington Reservoir | Conservation and adaptive reuse
The site also has the endangered Desmoulin's whorl snail, which is in the Red Date Book, together with diverse dragonflies, damselflies, birds, bats, small mammals and reptiles. There are five wooden sculptures by Daniel Cordell, commissioned by the Wildlife Trust in 2012.
Thorley Wash nature reserve | Introduction
The children's author Beatrix Potter painted hundreds of accurate watercolour illustrations of fungi. More recently, artists such as Martin Belou, Helen Downie (alias "Unskilled Worker"), and Steffen Dam have created installations and paintings of mushrooms.
Human interactions with fungi | In literature and art
"Thelymitra apiculata" is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.
Thelymitra apiculata | Conservation
Beatrix Charlotte Dobie (1887-1944) was a New Zealand landscape artist, most known for her illustrations in the work of conservationist Herbert Guthrie Smith. Dobie was born in Whangarei, New Zealand in 1887 to Herbert Boucher Dobbie. In 1911 she moved to London to study at the Slade School of Art, under Henry Tonks. During the First World War she volunteered for the Red Cross and was stationed in Malta and Codford, England.
Beatrix Dobie | Introduction
" Verticordia rennieana" is classified as "Not Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia rennieana | Conservation
Ina Gregory: Australian art and artists file, "State Library Victoria" Works by Ina Gregory in National Gallery of Victoria's collection Hammond, V., & Peers, J. 1992. "Completing the Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era." Hawthorn East, Victoria: Artmoves.
Ina Gregory | Further reading
"Verticordia citrella" is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.
Verticordia citrella | Conservation
The tenant farmer John Cannon and his family agreed to stay on to manage the farm for her while she made physical improvements and learned the techniques of fell farming and of raising livestock, including pigs, cows and chickens; the following year she added sheep. Realising she needed to protect her boundaries, she sought advice from W.H. Heelis & Son, a local firm of solicitors with offices in nearby Hawkshead. With William Heelis acting for her, she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm. She visited Hill Top at every opportunity, and her books written during this period (such as "The Tale of Ginger and Pickles", about the local shop in Near Sawrey and "The Tale of Mrs.
Beatrix Potter | Country life
In the UK the fern's natural population is entirely confined to Scotland, where it is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Cystopteris dickieana | Conservation
"Verticordia habrantha" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia habrantha | Conservation
"Eremophila cryptothrix" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Eremophila cryptothrix | Conservation status
"Thelymitra hiemalis" is listed as "endangered" under the Victorian "Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988".
Thelymitra hiemalis | Conservation
"Thelymitra benthamiana" is classified as "not threatened" in Western Australia by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Thelymitra benthamiana | Conservation
"Caladenia hildae" is listed as "rare" by the Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Caladenia hildae | Conservation
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is owned by Frederick Warne and Company, "The Tailor of Gloucester" by the Tate Gallery and "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies" by the British Museum. The largest public collection of her letters and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Linder Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In the United States, the largest public collections are those in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.
Beatrix Potter | Legacy
"Prostanthera askania" is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999" and the New South Wales Government "Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016".
Prostanthera askania | Conservation status
It now includes a pond which provides a home for amphibians including the great crested newt, palmate newt and toads.
Wellington, Somerset | Geography
Finding life in Sawrey dull, Helen Potter soon moved to Lindeth Howe (now a 34 bedroomed hotel) a large house the Potters had previously rented for the summer in Bowness, on the other side of Lake Windermere, Potter continued to write stories for Frederick Warne & Co and fully participated in country life. She established a Nursing Trust for local villages and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other rural issues.
Beatrix Potter | Country life
She was a trustee of Hestercombe Gardens surrounding Hestercombe House and has also been involved with buildings conservation both at Stowe and as Project Co-ordinator for the National Trust’s first restoration of a Modernist building, the Erno Goldfinger House at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead.
Kate Felus | Introduction
In 1996 she returned to Perth to establish a molecular genetics laboratory in the then Department of Conservation and Land Management. Her research has focussed on plant genetic research to inform conservation strategies for rare and threatened plants, as well as biodiversity conservation at community and landscape scales in relation to remnant viability and revegetation.
Margaret Byrne | Work in conservation
Potter and William Heelis enjoyed a happy marriage of thirty years, continuing their farming and preservation efforts throughout the hard days of World War II. Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William's large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate, and giving comfort and aid to her husband's brothers and sisters. Potter died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at Castle Cottage, and her remains were cremated at Carleton Crematorium. She left nearly all her property to the National Trust, including over of land, sixteen farms, cottages and herds of cattle and Herdwick sheep.
Beatrix Potter | Later life
She published various books on her own, such as a small volume ""Lichens"", ""Australian Wildflowers"" (1908), illustrated with her coloured lithographs, and produced the wildflower borders for butterfly studies in ""Scenic Gems of Australia"", by Dr Riches. Much later in life she wrote and illustrated ""Children's Stories - Little Stories of Little People"", describing the life-history of plants and insects, but which remained unpublished. One of the students in her oil and watercolour classes, was Mary Maiden, daughter of Joseph Henry Maiden. Mary later worked at the Botanic Gardens as an illustrator in a voluntary capacity.
Margaret Flockton | Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
"Caladenia peisleyi" is listed as "vulnerable" under the Victorian "Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988".
Caladenia peisleyi | Conservation
One small ant bites the driver of the bulldozer, and the story has a happy ending. Kathleen Commins in "The Sydney Morning Herald" thought it was "sensitively told ... [with] some appreciative and gentle ridicule of the kind of places that would replace the forest." A US reviewer, however, while recognising that destruction of forest and habitat occurred in the US as in Australia, found "the rhymes .. facile, the pictures amusing but ordinary." Another Australian reviewer thought that the intended audience of young readers would invest the bulldozer with "the same magical significance as the steam engine or fire engine had for their parents."
Elisabeth MacIntyre | Picture books about conservation
The complete collection of over 800 flora and fauna paintings is now held in the Pictures Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra. The bird paintings were bequeathed to the Library on Gostelow's death. Clifford Gostelow donated his inherited collection of flora paintings to the Library in 1969. The collection is represented in "For the Love of Nature: E.E. Gostelow's Birds and Flowers" (2010). Many of Gostelow's images have been digitised by the National Library. A number of his bird pictures have also been included in two National Library poetry publications. Twelve Gostelow paintings are used to illustrate a revised version of Judith Wright's "Birds" (2003).
E. E. Gostelow | National Library Collection
"Verticordia etheliana" var. "etheliana" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia etheliana var. etheliana | Conservation
However, despite repeated efforts by local organisations the area remains unprotected.
Wroughton's free-tailed bat | Conservation efforts
"Verticordia capillaris" is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.
Verticordia capillaris | Conservation
"Verticordia inclusa" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia inclusa | Conservation
"Thelymitra cornicina" is classified as "not threatened" in Western Australia by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Thelymitra cornicina | Conservation
The reserve supports an outstanding assemblage of moths and a varied butterfly fauna including several nationally scare species. Notable butterflies that may be seen are the small pearl-bordered fritillary, silver-washed fritillary, grizzled skipper and white admiral. Notable moths include the broad-bordered bee hawk-moth, eyed hawk-moth, elephant hawk-moth, pine hawk-moth and cream-spot tiger. The two areas of woodland in the reserve are Lower Vert Wood and Upper Vert Wood. The former is a bluebell wood and the latter has a well-maintained bracken-covered heath at its centre, as well as a large pond. Next to this expanse of water is a small hut owned by Butterfly Conservation, an organisation that saved several local species from extinction at the hands of Victorian butterfly collectors.
Park Corner Heath | Natural history
"Thelymitra variegata" is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.
Thelymitra variegata | Conservation
Areas such as the caves of Gregory National Park are still being researched by botanists and zoologists.
Ord Victoria Plain | Threats and preservation
The museum featured in the 2018 film Ladies in Black, where it was used to simulate the Sydney Morning Herald's compositors' room.
Penrith Museum of Printing | Conservation
Penelope Figgis's involvement with nature conservation advocacy began as a student in the late 1970s, when she campaigned heavily for the Wollemi National Park in NSW and the NSW Rainforests. In 1979 she graduated Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, with the thesis titled "The Politics of Wilderness Conservation: The Movement and the Issues". From 1981-1984 she was national lobbyist in Canberra for the Australian Conservation Foundation, where she played a major role in the campaign for the Franklin River.
Penelope Figgis | Early life and education
"Nematolepis frondosa" is listed as "vulnerable" under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, "threatened" under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and "vulnerable" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's "Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria".
Nematolepis frondosa | Conservation status
In 1952, Anderson carried out some remedial work on the murals but requested that no further work be done during her lifetime. She died in 1958. By the 1980s the murals had deteriorated so much that the chapel had to be closed. Large sections of the paint were being lost as a result of crystalline salts on the wall surface forcing off the painted plaster and gold leaf. With a grant from the Heritage Council of New South Wales, the chapel was restored in 1992 with work done by skilled conservators under the aegis of International Conservation Services. The conservators employed a technique used in Europe for treating frescoes.
Children's Chapel, St James' Church, Sydney | Conservation
"Verticordia lehmannii" is classified as "Priority Four" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.
Verticordia lehmannii | Conservation
"Verticordia oxylepis" is classified as "Not Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia oxylepis | Conservation
Protected under the national Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988. Listed as endangered under the IUCN Red List.
Galaxias fuscus | Conservation
This verticordia is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia oculata | Conservation
Consequently, she spent 12½ hours a week at the Botanic Gardens and 25 hours at the Forestry Department. In the end Flockton stayed on at the Botanic Gardens for five years beyond her retirement age, her last day of work at the Gardens being on 24 March 1927. In recognition of her contributions to botanical art, and referring to her as joint author of his works, Maiden named a few species after her - "Eucalyptus flocktoniae", "Acacia flocktoniae" and the Dorrigo Daisy-bush "Olearia flocktoniae". The lion's share of Flockton's work consisted of botanical illustration and she produced the necessary lithographs herself, being at that time the only female lithographer in Australia.
Margaret Flockton | Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
"Verticordia setacea" is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only one or a few locations.
Verticordia setacea | Conservation
""Dr. Margaret Davies : Conservation of the Welsh Countryside,"" "Times magazine" (16 October 1982)
Margaret Davies (conservationist) | Further reading
"Thelymitra villosa" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Thelymitra villosa | Conservation
"Verticordia drummondii" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia drummondii | Conservation
"Thelymitra fuscolutea" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Thelymitra fuscolutea | Conservation
"Philotheca pinoides" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Philotheca pinoides | Conservation status
"Thelymitra vulgaris" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Thelymitra vulgaris | Conservation
Winifred Waddell, MBE, (8 October 1884, Cumberland, England – 1972) was an English-born Australian botanist. Waddell worked with native-plant preservation groups during the 1950s. She was responsible for securing the first wildflower sanctuary, at Tallarook, Victoria, in 1949. She was appointed MBE on 1 January 1964 for her work in preservation of natural flora.
Winifred Waddell | Introduction
"Hakea myrtoides" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Hakea myrtoides | Conservation status
Christie's (British auctioneer) notes Louisa Finch's works in their historic sales of art auctions: "Two albums of original watercolours of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi. [dated: 8 October 1792-1797]. 2 volumes, 2° (498 x 380mm). 2 leaves of manuscript indices at the front of each volume, 299 original watercolours by Louisa Finch (340 x 235mm. and smaller), 152 in vol.I, 147 in vol.II, mounted one to a sheet within an ink and wash border, all numbered, all with identifying title and a note of the place where they were drawn ('Packington') inscribed on the mount in ink in a single hand, many with a reference number, most with dates." Christies also states, "Intelligence as well as artistic ability have been applied to creating the albums, and they show Louisa to have been not only an accomplished draughtswoman but also a keen student of botany."
Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford | Art Work
The importance of the area's flora has been recognised by botanists since the 18th Century, and the site is now protected by numerous national and international conservation designations.
Corrie Fee | Introduction
"Verticordia grandiflora" is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Verticordia grandiflora | Conservation
John Everett Millais, who painted many local landscapes, and Beatrix Potter, with her family, often visited Birnam. Potter drafted her first book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", at Eastwood House whilst writing a story and picture letter to child friend Noel Moore on 4 September 1893. There is an exhibition and garden dedicated to Potter and her characters in Birnam. Dr George Smyttan FRSE HEIC (1789-1863) was born and raised in Dunkeld, and retained links to Birnam all his life.
Birnam, Perth and Kinross | Notable people
Wainwright contends the "tarn" to be a reservoir, noting that none of the tarns on Claife Heights appear on 19th-century maps. He notes, however, that they are "not obtrusively artificial". After Beatrix Potter and her husband William Heelis married in 1913, they lived in Castle Cottage in Far Sawrey and rowed on the tarn in summer evenings. Potter sketched near the tarn and her husband fished in it. In 1926, Potter bought part of the tarn, planting the water lilies and stocking it with fish. Along with much other land, it was left to the National Trust by Potter upon her death in 1943.
Moss Eccles Tarn | History
In 2015, a species of toad found in Brazil, "Melanophryniscus biancae", was named in her honor due to her conservation efforts. Reinart worked with poet, Adélia Maria Woellner, and illustrator, Kitty Harvill to produce a picture book, "A descoberta do Bicudinho-do-Brejo", which is about "S. acutirostris" and was released in July 2018. Reinart invited Woellner to work with her on the book in order to increase the public's knowledge of "S. acutirostris".
Bianca Reinert | Career
In Victoria it is listed as "vulnerable", being known only from a single collection near Mallacoota.
Aphanopetalum resinosum | Conservation status