The Wasp and the Orchid

p67. ‘The Gum Tree. . .’ Victorian Naturalist, 1921, 37, p119. p150 ‘It would at . . .’ The Australasian, 24 August 1872, p7. The early history of the FNCV and woman’s participation is from Gary Presland, 2016, Understanding our natural world: The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880–2015 (FNCV: Blackburn) p17. p151 ‘We have sanctuaries . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Forest orchids: Flowers of winter and spring’, The Age, 7 August, p27. pp152–153 ‘When I was . . .’; ‘When golden Aeoniums . . .’ and ‘I still cannot . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1943, ‘The story of my honey-bees: Part II’, Victorian Naturalist, 60, pp19–23. p155 Early history of women at the University of Melbourne from Carole Hooper, 2010, ‘The University of Melbourne’s first female students’, Victorian Historical Journal, 81 (1) pp93–112 and Debra Hutchinson, 2013, ‘Bella Guerin: first female university graduate in Australia’, http://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/such-was-life/bella-guerin-first-female-university-graduate-in-australia/ [accessed 17.11.2016]. p157 ‘They spent many hours . . .’ and ‘Great powers of . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1938, ‘The huntsman spider (Isopeda immanis): Courtship, egg-laying and emergence of spiderlings’, The Australian Zoologist, 9, pp180–90. p158 Cost of degrees from ‘Statutes’, University of Melbourne Calendar, 1892, p122. Graduate careers from Farley Kelly, 1993, ‘Learning and teaching science: Women making careers 1890–1920’ in Farley Kelly (ed) On the edge of discovery: Australian women in science (Text: Melbourne) p51. Demographics of female students from Hooper, 2010. ‘The University of Melbourne’s first female student’. p159 ‘It was a . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1920, ‘Forest Orchids’, The Gum Tree, December, pp5–8. pp159–160 ‘The first stage . . .’ Moira R. Playne, 2005, ‘The line drawings, paintings and painted photographs of five women artists’ in Bruce Rigby and Nicolas Peterson (eds) Donald Thomson, the man and scholar (Academy of Social Sciences in Australia: Canberra) pp232–233. p160 ‘assisted in preparing . . .’ Alfred J. Ewart, 1930, ‘Preface’, Flora of Victoria (University Press: Melbourne) p5. Edith Coleman stereographic collection of orchids and wasps, SLV, donated by Prof H. Trevor Clifford, Accession no(s) H2007.79/1–46, http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1802619. p161 ‘A Mrs Eaves . . .’ letter from Herman Monague Rucker Rupp to Alec Chisholm, 23 April 1930, Acc No. 503.0/001 Item 18, Papers and correspondence of Rev. H. M. R. Rupp, Box 1 & 2, NHNSW Library. pp161–163 In the fresh . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Forest orchids: Flowers of winter and spring’, The Age, 7 August, p27. p163 Edith Coleman, 1928, ‘Winter Orchids: Quaint forms and rich colours’, The Argus, 18 August, p10. ‘I had only . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1928, ‘Pollination of Cryptostylis leptochila’, Victorian Naturalist, 44, pp333–40. ‘Photography is not . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 23 April 1932, Rica Erickson Papers SLWA. Later camera details related by John Thomson. p164 ‘These ugly squirming . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1929, ‘Some Social Insects: A Caterpillar Company – Defensive Tactics’, The Age, 30 December, p10. p165 ‘Spiders and pink . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Quaint Companions: Spider Orchids and Pink Fairies’, The Age, 17 September, p9. ‘Some of them . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Botanical renaissance: Forest orchids–autumn’, The Age, 26 June, p12. pl66 ‘Your papers are . . .’ letter from Oakes Ames to Edith Coleman, 1 January 1938, John Thomson collection. ‘You have a . . .’ letter from Dr Richard S. Rogers to Edith Coleman, 2 September 1933, quoted in Kate Baker, p12. ‘The majority of . . .’ Charles Daley to Edith Coleman 26 June 1933, quoted in ‘Comments on Mrs Coleman’s writings’ [unpublished document] John Thomson collection. Details of Nettie Palmer from a letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 24 February 1933, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. ppl67–l68 Opening section of Edith Coleman, 1922, ‘Some Autumn Orchids’, Victorian Naturalist, 39, pp103–108.

Chapter 8: A perfect partnership

p169 ‘The haunts of . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1928, ‘Pterostylis grandiflora’, Victorian Naturalist, 45, p111. pp171–172 This reconstruction is largely based on Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Botanical renaissance: Forest orchids–autumn’, The Age, 26 June, p12 as well as her subsequent papers on pseudocopulation. p173 ‘Here my rambling . . .’ Edith Coleman [Maman Cochet] 1927, ‘Spring Blossoms: A rose wilderness’, The Age, 5 November, p29. p174 ‘A strange hobby . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926, ‘Quaint Companions: Spider Orchids and Pink Fairies’, The Age, 17 September, p9. p175 ‘primrose path by . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1922, ‘Some Autumn Orchids’, Victorian Naturalist, 39, p103. ‘Most people are . . .’ and ‘Have you met . . .’ and ‘She wrote so much . . .’ H. Montague R. Rupp, quoted in Lionel Gilbert, 1992, The Orchid Man: The life, work and memoirs of the Rev. H M. R. Rupp, 1872–1956 (Kangaroo Press: Kenthurst) p202, 27, 28 p176 ‘I agree with . . .’ Edith Coleman to G. V. Scammell, 14 January 1931, MS 584/050 94 Aust C. letters to Mr. Scammel, NHNSW Library. p178 ‘In early January . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1927, ‘Pollination of the orchid Cryptostylis leptochila’, Victorian Naturalist, 44, p20. p180 Lissopimpla semipunctata is now known as Lissopimpla excelsa or the orchid dupe wasp. ‘neither larva nor . . .’ and ‘What then was . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1927, ‘Pollination of the orchid Cryptostylis leptochila, pp21–22. p181 ‘Long and often . . .’ and the footnote concerning Mr Price are both from Charles Darwin, 1877, ‘Various contrivances by which orchids are fertilized’ in P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman (eds) 1988, The Works of Charles Darwin (New York University Press: New York) v17, p38. p182 ‘The riddle of . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1928, ‘Pollination of Cryptostylis leptochil”, Victorian Naturalist, 44, p333. Masters Johnson Godfery, 1924, ‘The fertilization of Ophyrs speculum, O. lutea and O. fusca,’ Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, 63, pp33–40. p183 Henry Correvon and Maurice-Alexander Pouyanne, 1916, ‘Un curieux cas de mimétisme chez les Ophrydées [A curious case of mimicry in the Ophyrs]’. Journal de la société nationale d’horticulture de France, 4(17) pp29–47. ‘carried out by . .