Oriana Wilson

[8] Reverend George Seaver described Wilson as "a good field naturalist and blest with a quick and lively observation", saying that she, like her husband, had a particular affinity for birds.

[7] Wilson collected the holotype for the Australasian bent-wing bat, for which Oldfield Thomas named the species Miniopterus orianae.

[7] The award was given mainly in association with her work as honorary secretary of the Hospital Comforts Committee,[13] which came under the New Zealand Red Cross.

[15] She also travelled to an area south of Port Darwin, Australia, that had been previously unvisited by Western women.

[6][10] In 1897, she met Edward Adrian Wilson, at Caius House, Battersea, while he was conducting mission work in London.

[6] They married on 16 July 1901,[6] three weeks before Edward left on the Antarctic Discovery Expedition; the sledging flag she sewed for him was, after his death, displayed in Gloucester Cathedral[16] and is now in the collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute.