Marion Specht1928-2007

摘要

Marion Specht was the talented daughter of a Queensland government architect, William Gillies. Her primary schooling was at East Brisbane State School, her secondary at Brisbane Girls' Grammar, and her tertiary education was at the University of Queensland. She was in good company at Girls' Grammar, with her classmates including the later Professors Elizabeth Exley and June Halliday. For her BSc Honours in 1950-51 she studied the invertebrate mangrove fauna at Myora on North Stradbroke Island. Her knowledge and understanding of the mangrove invertebrate fauna became formidable, and extended to an Australia-wide survey in 1975 (Saenger et al. 1975).