The Wasp and the Orchid

University Press, 2004) p27. ‘We rather like . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1928. ‘Blackburn bird notes’, Victorian Naturalist, 44, p299. ‘A plant is . . .’ Coleman, Edith [E.C.] 1940, ‘Plea for an alien weed: Teasel has a past and a future’, The Age, 17 August, p8. ‘gossamer of tenderest . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1930, ‘Wind in the willows: Nature’s Æolian harps’, The Argus, 14 June, p3. p357 ‘Every Australian would . . .’ Edith Coleman, Come back in wattle time. p359 The history of Avenues of Honour from ‘Honour Avenues’, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park/visit/history/honour-avenues, last updated 17 November 2016 [accessed 22.2.2017]. p360 ‘I nurtured my . . .’ Mrs Matsuo wrote this poem to commemorate her son’s death in the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour on 31 May–1 June 1942. [This translation was provided by the Australia-Japan Research Project at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra] http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/underattack/ [accessed 6.6.17] pp361–362 Extract from Edith Coleman, 1930, ‘Flowers of the eucalypt: A source of national pride’, The Argus, 3 October, p4.

Chapter 14: Winter visitors to a Blairgowrie cottage

p363 ‘On the clear . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1929, ‘A garden wilderness: Old fashioned favourites and familiar friends’, The Argus, 3 August, p3. p365 This reconstruction is based on the recollections of John and Peter Thomson. p366 ‘a slight deafness . . .’ Rica Erickson, ‘A thumbnail sketch of Edith Coleman, 1931–32’, FNCV archives [unpublished manuscript]. Heather Taylor Johnson, 2013, Pursuing Love and Death (Fourth Estate: Sydney) and Heather Taylor Johnson (ed) 2017, Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain (University of Western Australia Publishing: Perth). p368 ‘long walks and . . .’ Edith Coleman to Editor, ‘Fauna and Flora Protection’, The Age, 5 August 1933, p6. pp368–369 ‘that I was . . .’ and ‘Here was the . . .’ Richard Jefferies, 1948, ‘The Season and the Stars’, The Old House at Coate (Harvard University Press: Cambridge) pp34–5. p371–373 All quotes from letters by Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands. ‘At present I’m . . .’ 31 December 1931, ‘Please forgive pencil . . .’ 5 December 1931, ‘We are here . . .’, ‘We are camped . . .’ and ‘Just recently I . . .’ 7 January 1932, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. p373 ‘Mrs Edith Coleman’s . . .’ Victorian Naturalist, 1950, 67, p69. ‘The FNCV noted . . .’ James H. Willis, 1950, ‘First lady recipient of Natural History Medallion–Mrs. Edith Coleman’, Victorian Naturalist, 67, pp99–100. p374 J. Ros Garnet, 1950, ‘The Australian Natural History Medallion: A survey of the first decade’, Victorian Naturalist, 67, pp93–97. ‘Her own amazing . . .’ Willis, 1950, pp99–100. ‘An excellent supper . . .’ from the ‘August meeting minutes’ 1950, Victorian Naturalist, 67, p62. p377 Recent review of mimicry in Australia in Marie E. Herberstein, Heather J. Baldwin and Anne C. Gaskett, 2014, ‘Deception down under: is Australia a hot spot for deception?’ Behavioral Ecology, 25, pp12–16. ‘Here at my . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1949, ‘Menace of the Mistletoe’ Victorian Naturalist, 66, p24. p378 ‘In flowering times . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1950, ‘Planting Mistletoe seeds: Unorthodox methods’, Emu 50, p264. Details of Oakes Ames funeral in a letter from Albert F. Hill to Edith Coleman, 17 May 1950, John Thomson collection. ‘You are understanding . . .’ letter from Blanche Ames to Edith Coleman, 17 December 1950, John Thomson collection. ‘Last winter my . . .’ letter from Oakes Ames to Edith Coleman, 29 November 1948, John Thomson collection. p379 ‘The garden darkens . . .’ Dorothy Hewett, 1994, ‘The Last Peninsula: 5. The Garden Darkens’, Peninsula (Fremantle Arts Press: Fremantle). p380 ‘Just as this . . .’ Victorian Naturalist, 1951, 68, p26. pp380–381 ‘There is no . . .’ Jean Galbraith, 1951, ‘Edith Coleman: A personal appreciation’, Victorian Naturalist, 68, p46. p381 ‘I had a . . .’ 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) p99. ‘She will be . . .’ H. Montague R. Rupp, 1951, ‘In memorium– Edith Coleman’, Australian Orchid Review, December, p122. p382 Thomas S. Eliot, 1921, ‘Tradition and the individual poet’, The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Alfred Knopf: New York) p44. ‘That her full . . .’ Mary Ann Evans [George Eliot] 1871/1985, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics: Harmondsworth) p896. p383 ‘We nature lovers . . .’ ‘The Blackbird’s Song is in her blood’, The Age, 15 April 1950, p5. pp385–386 by Edith Coleman, 1951, ‘Winter visitors to a Blairgowrie cottage’, Victorian Naturalist, 68, pp47–48.

Epilogue

p383 ‘Like most nature-lovers . . .’ from Edith Coleman, ‘Memorable Occurrences among Budgerigars.’ Victorian Naturalist, 1947, 64, p97. p390 ‘As I sit . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1924, ‘Birds at Blackburn’, The Age, 29 March, p26.

Index of names

Ackermann, Jessie 324

Agar, Wilfred 314, 315, 345, 347

Allen, Grant 258, 259

Alliston, Eleanor 100, 101

Ames, Blanche 100, 195, 378

Ames, Oakes 100, 166, 194–197, 378

Anderson, James W. 64, 77, 78

Arnold, Mavis 160

Babbage, Charles 314

Bacon, Francis 34–36, 245

Baden-Powell, Robert 312, 336

Bailey, Liberty Hyde 73

Baker, Kate 31, 72, 198, 222, 224, 229, 240, 246, 303–307, 341

Banfield, Edward 100

Banfield, Bertha 100

Barak, William 272

Barnard, Francis G. 166

Barrett, Charles 304, 405n

Barrie, James M. 20, 132, 248, 371

Bass, George 385

Bateman, W. H. 21, 22

Battarbee, Rex 285

Bazerman, Charles 253

Beebe, William 261

Bell, Diane 276

Bellamy, Edward 105, 248

Blackmore, Richard 247

Bouverie, Frances Charlotte 22

Bright, Anna-Maria 50

Browning, Robert 149, 167, 246

Bryan, Margaret 313

Bryant, Mrs E. 212, 223, 230

Buell, Lawrence 321, 322, 324

Burns, Robert 247

Cambridge, Ada 53, 82, 307

de Candolle, Augustin 313

Cannon, Michael 56

Chase, Athol 276

Chisholm, Alexander Hugh (Alec) 125, 166, 175, 243, 308, 322, 374

Church, Fran 224

Clacy, Ellen 354

Coleman, Dorothy xi, 5, 22, 94, 96, 102, 117, 121, 127–133 passim, 136, 137, 146, 148, 159, 160, 180, 210, 211, 221, 225, 237, 238, 269–271, 283–289, 292–295, 311, 316–318, 320, 325, 326, 335, 341–343, 345, 349, 350, 368, 370–374, 375, 376, 379, 381

Coleman, Gladys xi, 5, 27, 94, 96, 107, 117,