The Wasp and the Orchid

Prichard to Vance and Nettie Palmer, 1926, quoted in Drusilla Modjeska, 2012, Introduction to the 1990 edition, Coonardo (Harper Collins Australia: Sydney). p216 ‘a woman aware . . .’ Rica Erickson, 1999, A thumbnail sketch of Edith Coleman, FNCV Archives. p217 Edith’s copy of Emily H. Pelloe’s West Australian Orchids is inscribed to her from Pelloe and dated Dec 1930, Peter Thomson collection. ‘Mrs Edith Coleman . . .’ Emily H. Pelloe, 1930, West Australian Orchids (Dix Ltd: Perth) p3. ‘to send pressed . . .’ Rica Erickson [undated] Biographical note on Edith Coleman [unpublished manuscript] Rica Erickson Collection, SLWA and Rica Erickson, 1999, ‘A thumbnail sketch’, FNCV. p218 For an overview of the biodiversity of the south-west see Hans Lambers and Don Bradshaw, 2016, Australia’s south-west: a hotspot for wildlife and plants that deserve World Heritage status, The Conversation, 18 February, https://theconversation.com/australias-south-west-a-hotspot-for-wild-life-and-plants-that-deserves-world-heritage-status-54885 [accessed 1.3.2017]. p219 Caladenia excelsa is also known as Arachnorchis excelsa. The giant leek orchid she describes may be the inland leek orchid, Prasophyllum macrotys or regium. p220 ‘The dark purple . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1928, ‘Remarkable West Australian orchids’, The Argus, 17 November, p10. Jack Trott’s discovery is described in K. Dixon, 2003, ‘Underground orchids on the edge’, Plant Talk 31, pp34–35. ‘Western Australia’s Incredible Underground Orchid’, Science Daily, 9 February 2011, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110208101337.htm [accessed 31.1.2017]. ‘What is generally . . .’ and ‘a tale of . . .’ Coleman, 1928, ‘Remarkable Western Australian orchids’. p221 Dorothy Coleman, 1936, ‘Sarcisiphon rodwayi in Australia’, Victorian Naturalist, 52, pp163–166. ‘at the mouth . . .’ and ‘winding road dappled . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1931, ‘A silent sentinel of the coast: Cape Leeuwin lighthouse’, The Argus, 28 February, p4. p222 ‘He brought her . . .’, ‘a glorious bunch . . .’ and ‘Everybody on the . . .’ quote in Kate Baker, 1942, p6. p224 ‘I am trying . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 28 September 1931, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. pp226–227 ‘Just outside the . . .’ and ‘Cool green shade . . .’ Amy Mack and Emily Pelloe quoted in Dorothy Erickson, 2009, A Joy Forever: The story of Kings Park and Botanic Garden (Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority: Perth) pp106–107, 110–111. p228 ‘tall clumps of. . .’ Anon, Flowers in King’s Park, The West Australian, 28 September 1926, p8, also quoted in Dorothy Erickson, 2009 A Joy Forever, p116. ‘I’m hoping Mr . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 19 November 1931, Rica Erickson papers, SLWA pp231–233 Extract from Edith Coleman, 1931 ‘A Silent Sentinel of the Coast: Cape Leeuwin lighthouse’ The Argus, 28 February, p4.

Chapter 10: Fairy tales from nature

p235 ‘Except in a . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1940, ‘The romance of Kipling’s dittany’, Victorian Naturalist, 57, pp127–132. pp237–238 This reconstruction is adapted from Edith’s comments on camping with her daughters in letters to Rica Sandilands (31 December 1931 and 7 January 1932) and from Edith Coleman, 1951, ‘Winter visitors to a Blairgowrie cottage’, Victorian Naturalist, 68, pp47–48. p243 Alec Chisholm, 1964, Land of Wonder: The Best of Australian Nature Writing (Angus and Robertson: Sydney). Suzanne Falkiner, 1992, The Writer’s landscapes (Vol 1–2): Wilderness and Settlement (Simon and Schuster: Sydney). The chemistry paper in iambic pentameter is J. F. Bunnett and F. J. Kearley, 1971, ‘Comparative mobility of halogens in reactions of dihalobenzenes with potassium amide in ammonia’, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 36, pp184–6. p244 ‘a three poled . . .’ Aldous Huxley,1959, Preface to The Collected Essays of Aldous Huxley, in Robert S. Baker and James Sexton, 2002, Aldous Huxley Complete Essays, vol VI, 1951–1963 (Ivan R Dee: Chicago) p330. p246 ‘She once laughingly . . .’ Kate Baker, 1942, p19. p247 Edith Coleman, to the Editor, The Age, 9 July 1932, p8. ‘a hale, homely . . .’ According to Herbert Warren, quoted in Edith Coleman, to the Editor, The Age, 20 July 1940, p9. Also ‘One may write . . .’ and ‘All of his . . .’ in reference to Conrad and Galsworthy, Edith Coleman to the Editor, The Age, 24 February 1934, p19 and in reference to Gordon in Edith Coleman to the Editor, ‘Gordon and Scentless Blossoms’, The Argus, 23 November 1935, p6. p248 Other references to reading matter and authors are drawn from her letters to Rica Sandilands, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. ‘by no means . . .’ Edith Coleman on J. M. Barrie, to the Editor, The Age, 5 March 1938, p4. On Emerson, Edith Coleman, to the Editor, The Age, 11 January 1932, p6. p249 ‘Who knows what . . .’ Anne Lamott, 1995, Bird by bird (Anchor Books: New York) pxiv. ‘Colorectal theology’, Lamott, 1995, p102. p250 Vladimir Nabokov, 1945, ‘Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae (Lyncaenidae, Lepidoptera)’ Psyche, 52, pp1–61. ‘A writer should have . . .’ widely attributed to Nabokov, quoted in quoted in Erin Overbey, 2011, ‘Nabokov’s blue butterflies’, The New Yorker, 26 January, http://www.newyorker.com/books/ page-turner/nabokovs-blue-butterflies [Accessed 19.7.2017]. p251 ‘Our results show . . .’ R. Vila, C. D. Bell, R. Macniven, B. Goldma-Huertas, R. H. Y. Ree, C. R. Marshall, Z. Balint, K. Johnson, D. Benyamini, N. Pierce, 2011, ‘Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, pp2737–2744. ‘The pleasures and . . .’ quoted in Overbey, 2011. p252 ‘Time is a . . .’ Vladimir Nabokov, 1969, Ada (McGraw Hill: New York) p537. ‘In a way . . .’ Vladimir Nabokov, 1945, ‘Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae’, p2. p253 ‘The corpus of . . .’ Charles Bazerman, 1988, ‘The Problem of Writing Knowledge,’ in R. A. Harris (ed) Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison) p169–186. ‘even if I . . .’ Aldous Huxley, 1925, quoted in Walter M. Elsasser, Memoirs of a physicist in the Atomic Age (1978) epigraph. p254 ‘America wanted its . . .’ Preface to the 1968 reprint of Susan