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open ways: Part II’, The Australian Woman’s Mirror, 3 February, p16. ‘the only girl . . .’ Diana Saverin, 2015, ‘The Thoreau of the Suburbs’, The Atlantic, 3 February, http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/ archive/2015/02/thethoreauof thesuburbs/385128/ [accessed 10.1.2016]. ‘The mythic frontier . . .’ William Cronon, 1995, ‘The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature’, in William Cronon (ed) Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (WW Norton: New York) pp69–90. ‘roughly half of . . .’ Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Belknap Press: Cambridge Massachusetts) pp44–5. p309 ‘Is national forgetfulness . . .’ Clare Wright, 2015, ‘Forgetting to remember’, Griffith Review, 48, pp149–157. This dynamics of cross-gender communications is a very large field of research, but see, for example, the foundational books by Robin Tolmach Lakoff or Deborah Tannen as well as Ann Weatherall. pp309–310 ‘He shared our . . .’, ‘This son of . . .’, ‘One is not . . .’ and ‘teach him to . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1934, ‘The Echidna under domestication’, Victorian Naturalist, 51, pp12–21. p311 ‘I rail against . . .’ Edith Coleman (E.C.) 1940, ‘Day of little things: The squeak family–wearing shows of happiness’, The Age, 6 January, p11. ‘Santa Claus, the . . .’ Stella Miles Franklin, 1963, Childhood at Brindabella, quoted in Kate Rigby, 2007, ‘Ecopoetics of the Limestone Plains’ in Carol A. Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds) The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers (Rodopi: Amersterdam) p161. Bill Baillie’s return documented in Gladys W. Coleman, 1924, ‘Sketches from the Bush: Bill Baillie’, The Leader, 31 July, np. Gladys W. Coleman, 1924, ‘Sketches for the Bush: The Yabbie’, The Leader, 11 August, p55. ‘On Sunday . . .’ and ‘There is no . . .’ in Donald Macdonald, 1914, ‘Notes for Boys’, The Argus, 19 May, p12. p312 ‘I want to . . .’ and ‘grand aspirations [for] . . .’ Donald Macdonald, 1909, ‘Notes for Boys’, The Argus, 23 February, p5. p313 Observations of nature study being for boys from Grant Rodwell, 1997, ‘Nature Enthusiasm, Social Planning and Eugenics in Australian State Schools, 1900–1920’, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 29, p6. p313 Jane Marcet, 1809, Conversations on Chemistry (Sidney’s Press: New Haven) piii. p314 History of the women in the British Academy from Margaret Alic, 1986, Hypatia’s Heritage (The Women’s Press: London) p180. Evidence of women’s participation in botany from Ann B Shteir, 1987, ‘Botany in the breakfast room: Women in early nineteenth century British plant study’, in Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram (eds) Uneasy careers and intimate lives: Women in Science 1789–1979 (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick) pp31–44. Alfred Ewart’s preference for employing cheaper women in Linden Gillbank, 2010, From System garden to scientific research: The University of Melbourne’s School of Botany under its first two professors (1906–1973) (University of Melbourne: Parkville) p6. ‘every member of . . .’ from Report to the University Council by the Committee of Selection for the Professorship of Botany, 1938/91, UM 312, UMA, quoted in Gillbank, 2010, p13. Both Agar and Turner preferentially appointed males as documented in 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) p58 and in Jane Carey, 2001, ‘Engendering scientific: Australian women and science, 1880–1960’, Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies, 7, p17. p315 Historical gender disparity data from Richard Sellick and Stuart Macintyre, 2004, A short history of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne University Press: Melbourne) p77. Current gender disparity data from ‘Staff equity and diversity framework, 2013–2016’, University of Melbourne, https://hr.unimelb.edu.au/ data/assets/pdf_file/0005/750659/Staff_Equity_and_Diversity_Framework_2013-2016.pdf [accessed 19.11.2016]. p316 ‘Had our friend . . .’ Charles Lyell to his future wife, 1831, I325, quoted in Alic, 1986, p190. Mary Horner’s contributions are noted in Ellen Cole, Esther D. Rothblum and Donna M. Ashcraft, 2013, Women’s Work: A survey of scholarship by and about women (Routledge: London) pp55–56. p317 ‘Named in honour . . .’ Richard S. Rogers, 1923, ‘Contributions to the orchidaceous flora of Australia’, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 47, p337. Recent sightings of the lilac leek orchid’s are recorded in the Atlas of Living Australia, http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/ca6f2a66-776d-426e-8059-a80a07a5d103, with the original photographs and records, ‘Prasophyllum colemaniae and Maegilla asserta’ (20 August 2014) Bowerbird, found at http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/19881 [accessed 17.2.2017] . pp317–318 ‘in a party . . .’ Edith Coleman, ‘Orchids at the National Park.’ Victorian Naturalist, vol. 43, 1926, pp211–212. p320 ‘Miss Dorothy Coleman . . .’ ‘TOGA Dance’, Table Talk, 12 June 1923, p31. ‘Residents of Blackburn . . .’ ‘Dance at Blackburn’, Table Talk, 18 September 1924, p41. ‘The society of . . .’ Henry D. Thoreau, 14 November 1841, Journal entry, quoted in Odell Shepard (ed) 1961, The heart of Thoreau’s journals (Dover Publications: New York) p67. p321 ‘the lady – Edith . . .’ and ‘in my opinion . . .’ J. F. McCormack to the Editor, ‘Emerson’s Essays’, The Age, 25 June 1932, p8. ‘I had forgotten . . .’ Edith Coleman to the Editor, ‘Emerson’s Essays–Bedside Reading’, The Age, 9 July 1932, p8. ‘Strictly speaking, your . . .’ J. H. Sampson to the Editor, ‘Flesh-devouring plants’ The Age, 27 November 1933, p16. ‘My letter was . . .’ Edith Coleman to the Editor, ‘Flesh-eating plants’ 30 November 1933, p13. ‘Victorian feminist mock insouciance’ and ‘It takes Thoreau . . .’ Lawrence Buell, 1996, The environmental imagination: Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture (Harvard University Press: Cambridge Massachusetts) pp234–5. p322 ‘A question mark . . .’ Alec Chisholm following Edith Coleman, ‘Aromatic plants as antiseptics,’ Victorian Naturalist, vol. 61, 1944, pp85–88. p323 ‘feminine tosh . . .’ Amy Fallon, 2011, ‘VS Naipaul finds no women writers his literary match – not even Jane Austen’, The Guardian, 2 June, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/02/vs-naipaul-jane-austen-women-writers [accessed 8.12.17] ‘the male-dominated tradition . . .’ and ‘helped craft a . . .’ Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards, 2002, At Home