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Olive Blanche Davies MSc (27 October 1884 Toorak, Victoria - 1976/7 Adelaide) 〔http://gw5.geneanet.org/yuille?lang=nl;pz=thomas;nz=zuill;ocz=0;p=olive+blanche;n=davies〕 was an Australian botanist and botanical artist, noted for being co-author with Alfred Ewart of their 1917 book ''The Flora of the Northern Territory'', and for producing many of the illustrations.〔(Australasian Herbaria )〕 Olive was the youngest of six children born to Elizabeth Locke Mercer ( *c1850) from Kirkcudbright and Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850-1912) 〔(''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' )〕 of Geelong, the family living at Toorak, Victoria.〔(''Australian Pioneer Families'' )〕〔(''Flora of the Northern Territory'' )〕 She was Government Research Scholar at Melbourne University, studying biology and wrote a paper in 1911 on Petterd's semi-slug (''Cystopelta petterdi'' ), and another in 1914 on (''Caryodes dufresnii'' ), a large land mollusk native to Tasmania.〔(''The Anatomy of Caryodes dufresnyi'' )〕〔(Conchology )〕〔http://biostor.org/reference/58499〕 On 22 December 1915 at 'Cluden', in Brighton, Australia, Olive Blanche Davies married Arthur Lyle Rossiter, a lieutenant in the Australian Expeditionary Force, and elder son of Edward Lyle Rossiter of Elsternwick. Arthur had been born in 1888 in Ballarat 〔(''The Argus'' (Melbourne, Victoria) )〕 By the end of World War I he had risen to the rank of captain,〔(''Australian War Memorial'' )〕 and after the War he gave a lecture on gas warfare at Melbourne University, from which he had graduated an MSc. in 1911 and had been a demonstrator in physics from 1913. He had served as Gas Officer in the 4th Australian Division in France.〔(Questia )〕 In 1924 he was appointed on a temporary basis as senior master at Melbourne High School.〔(''Victoria Government Gazette'' )〕 ==References==
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