Margaret Jane Annand Bulfin (née Simpson) (1920–1996) was a Scotland-born New Zealand botanist, botanical collector, and mountaineer.
[2][1] In 1950 she started working as a science technician in the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) with botanists Lucy Moore and Ruth Mason, first in Wellington and then in Christchurch and Lincoln.
[1] One of the projects Simpson assisted with early in her career was the curation of a fruit and seed collection, which she continued to work on for the next thirty years until she retired.
[3] Simpson was appointed as DSIR Scientist in 1974, and her research focused on native New Zealand species' seed germination, viability and identification.
[9] Through her botanical field work, Simpson became interested in French naturalists who visited New Zealand, and she wrote short biographies of Jules Dumont d'Urville[10] and Étienne Raoul, among others.