From Head's Nook to the high plains: Winifred Waddell and the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria

摘要

On Wednesday, 16 August 1972, a small piece appeared in the Melbourne Herald reporting that 'The founder of the Victorian Native Plants Preservation Society, Miss Winifred Waddell, died on Monday night.' Her occupation listed on her death certificatewas 'Not any'.On 3 October 1991, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission received an application from the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria for De-registration of a Defunct Company and it was subsequently de-registered on 27 February 1992, almost twenty years after Miss Waddell died.Who was this woman and what was the background to her forming the Native Plants Preservation Society, a community-based society that made such a major contribution to Australian native plants and their preservation in this country.