Anna Vickers

Anna Vickers (28 June 1852 – 1 August 1906) was a marine algologist and plant collector known principally for her work on algae of the Antilles and the Canary Islands.

Topics she touched on range from word derivations in the Maori language to the ferns and algae of south Australia.

[1][3] Vickers carried out research into marine flora around Roscoff, Naples (Italy), Antibes (France), the Canary Islands, and the Antilles.

[1] When Vickers died at the age of 54, she left a planned book on Barbadian algae unfinished.

[1] It was completed by her colleague Mary Shaw and published posthumously in 1908 as Phycologia Barbadensis, with 93 plates of anatomical drawings by Vickers and other illustrations in color by a Mlle Trottet.