Watson, Edna Madge (née Quiggin)   (1925 - )

Born at Murrumburrah, NSW on 7 July 1925;

Primary education: Leeton and Forbes Public Schools
Secondary education: Forbes and Gunnedah Intermediate High Schools
Tertiary education: BA (Armadale/Sydney, 1945), BSc (ANU 1974), PhD (ANU 1984)

Employment: NSW Education Dept language teacher 1946-49, 1963
P/T tutor, ANU, 1977-79
Visiting Fellow, ANU, 1985-86

Worked in cytology, phytogeography and evolutionary aspects of the Australian flora, especially Liliaceae sens lat.

Collecting focused on Bulbine, live collections for cytological study, vouchers lodged at Australian National Herbarium CANB.

In 1985 spent six months as Visiting Researcher at the Botanical Institue of the University of Vienna.

Source: Extracted from contribution to ABRS survey in 1990
Portrait Photo: supplied to above ABRS survey.

Collecting localities for 'Watson, E.M.' in CANB from AVH (2021)

Data from 109 specimens