Nancy Adams

Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams CBE QSO (19 May 1926 – 27 March 2007) was a New Zealand botanical illustrator and museum curator.

For other people named Nancy Adams, see Nancy Adams (disambiguation).

Nancy Adams

CBE QSO
Born
Jacqueline Nancy Mary Whittaker

(1926-05-19)19 May 1926
Levin, New Zealand
Died27 March 2007(2007-03-27) (aged 80)
Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
Alma materVictoria University College

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.[1]

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 Zealander, for whom Adams drew Thallus of Marchasta bearing archegoniophores.[2] She received international recognition for her detailed and delicate algal illustrations.[1]

Awards and honours

Awards included the Loder Cup in 1964, and the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[3] She was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services in the 1989 New Year Honours,[4] and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to botany, in the 1996 New Year Honours.[5] 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.[6] She is a Royal Society of New Zealand 150 women in 150 words laureate.[7]

Bibliography
Library resources about
Nancy Adams
By Nancy Adams
  • Trees and shrubs of New Zealand, by A. L. Poole and Nancy M. Adams, 1963
  • Mountain Flowers in New Zealand, 1980
  • Wild Flowers in New Zealand, 1980
  • Seaweeds of New Zealand: An illustrated guide, 1994

References
  1. New Zealand Garden Journal (2007). "Obituary" (PDF).
  2. Campbell, Ella O. (November 1961). "The Liverwort Genus Marchasta". Tuatara. 9 (2): 77. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  3. Haines, Catharine (2001). International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 2. ISBN 1-57607-090-5. madge adam oxford.
  4. "No. 51580". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1988. p. 34.
  5. "New Year honours list 1996". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 1995. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  6. Herald, The New Zealand. "Obituary: Nancy Adams". Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  7. "150 Women in 150 Words". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  8. IPNI.  N.M.Adams.
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