Donaldson, Agnes Adelaide (née Elms)   (1865 - 1949)

Born in Victoria 1865, died at Rockhampton 11 July 1948.

Born in Vic., one of eight children, to a pastoralist, Hastings Alfred Elms (1832-1910), and Janet née Beveridge (1838-1899). Agnes went to Qld in the late 1880s as a governess to the Turnbull family at 'Lansdowne' sheep station near Tambo. In 1890, she married the station overseer, Robert Donaldson (1850-1939), and they had six children. The family lived at 'Alpha Station' (where Agnes's husband was manager) and at 'Medway Station' where he became a part-owner in 1908.

Agnes collected MEL specimens at upper Belyando River, 1890-1891, and 'Alpha Station', 1891.

She died at the residence 'Llanmiloe', Rockhampton, in 1947 at the age of 83.

Source: extracted from: Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison (2014) 'Ferdinand Mueller's female plant collectors: a biographical register', Muelleria Vol.32 [consult for source references]