1936-38 industrial art Swinburne Technical College, Victoria ; 1940-41: night classes at Nat.Gallery of Victoria; botany Univ. Melbourne
England, UK
F. C. Stern: Snowdrops & Snowflakes (1956) ; E. H. Cox et al: Modern Rhododendrons (London 1956) ; W. T. Turrill, E. Mannering, M. Stones & W. Curtis: Endemic Flora of Tasmania (1967) ; Endemic Flora of Tasmania (1978, 6 volumes) ; John McDonnell; Stones: Flora of Louisiana (1991) ; Curtis's Botanical Magazine (main illustrator between 1958 and 1980) ;
Royal Horticultural Society, London (1986 Veitch Gold Medal); British Museum; Smithsonian; Louisiana State Museum & Univ.; Garden Club of America; ...
Australian botanist & author Winifred Mary Curtis (1905-2005) on The Endemic Flora of Tasmania (6 volumes, 1967-1978) ; Curtis Botanical Magazin 1958-83 ;
botanical watercolour, painting, and pen-and-ink ; designs for greeting cards ;
Papers at National Library of Australia ; www.eoas.info/biogs/P004310b.htm ; interview from 2008 at www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2419936.htm ; ..
Lawrence 1964: 74 ; Lawrence 1968: 230-1 ; Saunders 1995: 100 & 108 ; Smyth, Elaine B.: Stones & Flora of Louisiana, H. Morgan: Australian Women's Register 2002 ; Daniels 1974: 58f. ; http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004310b.htm ; Zdanowicz, Irena: Beauty in Truth. The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones (Melbourne, Victoria: National Gallery of Victoria, 1996) ; Sprunger 1986: 11 ;
Active in England 1952-8; in Australia (1921- and 1961-68), too, nursing at Epworth Hopital Richmond, Melbourne. www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house/archive-exhibitions/inverleith-house-archive-main-programme/1991/margaret-stones-the-flora-of-louisiana; in 1989 she got an honorary D.Sc. from the Univ. of Melbourne. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=15250&-max=25 . See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Stones .
Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/stones-margaret.html .
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