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Born in Chatswood, NSW, 22 November 1934
Her tertiary qualifications were secured at the University of Sydney. Her PhD thesis was 'Studies in the experimental taxonomy of Ranunculus and Darwinia'.
In November 1969 she joined the National Herbarium of NSW, Sydney, as a Botanist and in turn became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific). She is a member of the Linn. Soc. of NSW, Aust. Systematic Botany Soc. and the Ecol. Soc. of Australia.
Her special interests
include plant evolution and southern hemisphere biogeography.
Source: Extracted from: Hall, N. (1992), Supplement No. 3 to 'Botanists of the eucalypts - 1978'. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne
Our quiet achiever Dr Barbara Briggs reached
another milestone late last year although it is
one she probably prefers not to dwell on. She
turned 80, but quietly frustrated our attempts
to organise a celebration of this at the Gardens
by going travelling for a month or two, as is
her wont.
Barbara retired from the position of Senior
Assistant Director Plant Sciences here at
RBG Sydney in 1997 after nearly 37 years as
a botanist and administrator. Since then, she
has continued her research studies, mainly
on Restionaceae, as an Honorary Research
Associate.
To me, she seems to have maintained
an admirable balance between her research, her
travels to the farthest reaches of Australia and
overseas, and other activities such as yoga and
choral singing.
Karen Wilson (Sept 2015)
Source: Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 164 (September 2015) p.22
Data from 12,722 specimens