Mary MacLean Hindmarsh
Mary MacLean Hindmarsh (21 July 1921 – 10 April 2000) was an Australian botanist who worked at the New South Wales University of Technology in Ultimo as a professor of biology. A graduate of the University of New England in Armidale and the University of Sydney, she did a doctorate study on the effects of certain substances of cell division and root growth and research on a key to rainforest species south of the watershed of the Macleay River. Hindmarsh was a foundation council member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from 1970 to 1974. Biography On 21 July 1921, Hindmarsh was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the oldest of four children, with three younger sisters. Hindmarsh was raised by her grandmother following the death of her mother. She was enthusiastic about botany, and matriculated to the University of New England in Armidale in 1939 as part of its second intake of students, opting for biology. This followed her secondary education at Lismore High Sc ...
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Lismore, New South Wales
Lismore is a city in northeastern New South Wales, Australia and the main population centre in the City of Lismore Local government in Australia, local government area; it is also a regional centre in the Northern Rivers region of the State. It is situated on a low flood plain on the banks of the Wilsons River (New South Wales), Wilsons River near the latter's junction with Leycester Creek, both tributaries of the Richmond River which enters the Pacific Ocean at Ballina, New South Wales, Ballina, to the east. The original settlement initially developed as a grazing property in the 1840s, then became a timber and agricultural town and inland port based around substantial river traffic, which prior to the development of the road and rail networks was the principal means of transportation in the region. Use of the river for transport declined and then ceased around the mid-twentieth century, however by that time Lismore (which was elevated to city status in 1946) had become well est ...
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