Nancy Adams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nancy Adams

botanist and botanical artist

Date of Birth: 19-May-1926

Place of Birth: Levin, Manawatu-Wanganui Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 27-Mar-2007

Profession: writer, botanist, botanical illustrator

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Nancy Adams

  • Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams (19 May 1926 – 27 March 2007) was a New Zealand botanist, botanical artist, and museum curator. Born in Levin in 1926, Adams attended Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University College, studying zoology and botany.
  • At 16 she joined the Botany Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).
  • She worked there until 1959, when she was appointed to the Dominion Museum (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) as assistant Curator of Botany with a special responsibility for algae.
  • She retired from her position at the museum in 1987 but continued to be an Honorary Research Associate of the Museum.Adams was a prolific artist, illustrating nearly forty publications on native plants, alpine life, trees and shrubs.
  • Included in these publications is an article written by Ella Orr Campbell, a fellow New Zealand botanist, for whom Adams drew Thallus of Marchasta bearing archegoniophres.
  • She received international recognition for her detailed and delicate algal illustrations.
  • Awards included the Loder Cup in 1964, and the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
  • She was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services in the 1989 New Year Honours, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to botany, in the 1996 New Year Honours.
  • In 1994, she received an award for her work Seaweeds of New Zealand: An Illustrated Guide, which held a description of 600 different plant species and illustrating 441.

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