Australian Capital Territory
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9 (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Disallowable Instrument DI2002-178
made under the
Public Place Names Act 1989, section 3 (Minister to determine names)

I DETERMINE the names of the public places that are Territory Land as specified in the attached Schedule A and as indicated on the attached plan.

I REVOKE the names of the public places that are Territory Land as specified in the attached Schedule B.

Lincoln James Hawkins
Delegate of the Minister

Dated the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE A
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Division of Banks:  Botanists, things botanical or relating to natural history
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Alison Ashby Crescent	Alison Marjorie Ashby 
(1901-1987)	South Australian botanist and flower painter.
Alison Ashby had a life-long interest in natural history and Australian plants of which she propagated, planted and distributed thousands in her lifetime.
Miss Ashby began painting in the early 1930s.  Her large collection of paintings is deposited at the Adelaide Botanical Garden.  Many of these paintings have been reproduced as postcards. 
She is commemorated by Acacia ashbyae and Solanum ashbyae.
	
Booderee Place	Booderee Botanic Gardens	The Booderee Botanic Gardens (formerly the Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens) were established in 1951 as an annex of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Its purpose was to provide frost-free growing conditions for plants unsuited to Canberra's climate. In the year 2000 the Gardens were proclaimed as part of the Booderee National Park.
	
Carr Street	Stella Grace Maisie ‘Maisie’ (1912-1988)	Botanist and Ecologist.  
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Maisie Carr studied at the University of Melbourne, MSc 1936.
Maisie was Demonstrator at the Botany School, University of Melbourne 1935-38 and Senior Demonstrator 1938-41.  Maisie was responsible for Ecological Studies for the Soil Conservation Board, Hume Catchment 1941-48.  From 1949‑52 she was lecturer in plant taxonomy and senior lecturer 1952-60, Belfast 1960-67, and Visiting Fellow, Australian National University 1967 until her death.
With her husband D.J. Carr she edited People and Plants in Australia and Plants and Man in Australia. 	
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This is Page One of Five of Schedule A to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.
SCHEDULE A
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Division of Banks:  Botanists, things botanical or relating to natural history
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Cookson Place	Isabel Clifton Cookson 
(1893-1973)	Botanist
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Isabel Cookson studied at the University of Melbourne graduating with a BSc in 1916. 
In 1929 she studied at the University of Manchester under Professor Lang.
She tutored at Newman and in 1930 was appointed as Lecturer in Botany and remained associated with the Department until her death. 
In 1948 she received a Leverhulme Research Grant and in 1952 attended the 40th session of the Indian Science Congress. She was Research Fellow in Botany, University of Melbourne 1952-1960. 	
Crespin Place	Irene Crespin, OBE
(1896-1980)	Geologist and micropalaeontologist.
Born in Kew, Melbourne, Irene Crespin studied geological sciences at Melbourne University receiving a BA in 1919. 
In 1936 she succeeded Frederick Chapman as Palaeontologist in the Department of Interior, becoming the first woman to attain the highest position for her profession.  However, because she was female, her wage was fixed at half that previously paid to Chapman.
Irene travelled widely and wrote many scientific publications.  She received many awards including the Queen Elizabeth II coronation medal in 1953 and an OBE in 1969.	

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This is Page Two of Five of Schedule A to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE A
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Division of Banks:  Botanists, things botanical or relating to natural history
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Forsythe Street	William Forsythe 
(1864-1910)	Botanist.
Born in Perthshire, Scotland, William Forsythe was the Overseer at the Sydney Botanic Gardens from 1891 until his death in 1910.  He graduated with a Batchelor of the Arts from the University of Sydney in 1909 at the age of 45.
Along with his colleagues in the Sydney Botanic Gardens, William had an enormous influence on the amenity of  horticulture, particularly tree species that have become characteristic of many of Sydney’s urban parks and streets.
	
Galbraith Close	Jean Galbraith 
(1906-1998)	Botanist, naturalist, conservationist. 
Born in Tyers, Victoria, Jean Galbraith was an eminent botanist.  Her interest in botany began as a young teenager.  
She was a prolific author, writing many books, articles, poems and radio broadcasts, notably: Wildflowers of Victoria (1950) and the Collins Field Guide to the Wildflowers of South Eastern Australia (1977).  
From 1923 Jean was involved with the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. She continued this involvement for more than six decades.  In 1970 she was awarded their Australian Natural History Medallion.
Two plants are named in her honour: Dampiera galbraithiana (1988) and Boronia galbraithiae (1992).	

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This is Page Three of Five of Schedule A to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE A
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Division of Banks:  Botanists, things botanical or relating to natural history
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Olive Pink Crescent	Olive Muriel Pink 
(1884-1975)	Anthropologist and Botanical Artist. 

Olive Pink was a botanical artist and anthropologist who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal people.  She was secretary of the Anthropological Society of NSW.  She spent much time in the Northern Territory living first with Arrernte and Warlpiri people and settling eventually in Alice Springs. Olive sketched many desert flowers around Alice Springs.  

She was responsible for the gazette of the twenty hectare Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve in 1956.  In 1975 the reserve was renamed Olive Pink Flora Reserve in her honour and is now called the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.
	
Paperbark Street	Melaleuca cajuputi
(Paperbark Tea-Tree)	Australian native tree.

The Paperbark Tea-Tree occurs naturally in the Northern Territory, northern Queensland and northern Western Australia.

It is a medium-sized tree to about 25 metres tall with a single stem.  The bark is layered and papery.  The crown has a silvery appearance. The leaves are straight or curved and often hairy. 

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This is Page Four of Five of Schedule A to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE A
Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)
Division of Banks:  Botanists, things botanical or relating to natural history
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Troughton Street	Ellis Le Geyt Troughton 
(1893-1974)	Natural historian.

Born in Sydney, Ellis Troughton joined the Australian Museum as a cadet and served on the staff for over 50 years.   

During WWI he served as a stretcher‑bearer and on returning to the Museum became Curator of Mammals.  He collected specimens in Australia and New Guinea and discovered a number of new genera and species of mammals.  

Ellis was President of the Royal Zoological Society and the Linnean Society of NSW.  He wrote many papers and books - his Furred Animals of Australia is a classic in the field.
	
Wittunga Crescent	Wittunga Botanic Garden	Botanic Garden 
The Wittunga Botanic Garden at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills, SA was established by Mr Edwin Ashby in 1901.  It was generously given to the State by his son Mr Keith Ashby and family in 1965.  The garden was opened to the public in 1975. 
Edwin Ashby originally created a formal English garden at Wittunga with herbaceous borders, roses, trellises and arbours. However, his fascination with the native plants of Australia and South Africa led to the development of a most interesting and different garden, part of which remains today. 

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This is Page Five of Five of Schedule A to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE B

Public Place Names 2002, No. 9  (Street Nomenclature - Banks)

The following street names are revoked.  Refer to Schedule A of this Instrument for determination of these street names with their new extent.

Street Name	Original Notification Details	
Forsythe Street	Notified in ACT Special Gazette S81 on 12 June 1992, by Determination No. 60 of 1992.	
Paperbark Street	Notified in the ACT Legislation Register on 10 December 2001 by DI2001-337. 	
Troughton Street	Notified in ACT Special Gazette S140 on 19 August 1992 by Determination No. 138 of 1992.	

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This is Page One of One of Schedule B to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.