Gulielma Lister

Gulielma Lister (28 October 1860 – 18 May 1949) was a British botanist and mycologist who was considered an international authority on Mycetozoa. Lister was educated at home save for one year at Bedford College for Women. Lister's mother was a formally trained artist, which appears to have been part of Lister's home schooling. going on to revise and expand the work with two further editions in 1911 and 1925. These further additions featured coloured plates of Lister's watercolour illustrations. She never held an official appointment at the museum.

She was a contemporary of Annie Lorrain Smith and Ethel Barton. She catalogued and studied botanical collections in Kew Gardens, Natural History Museum, Paris, and the University of Strasbourg. She was president in 1912 and 1932, and her dedication to the group was recognised in 1924 when she was made an honorary member. Lister also had an interest in animals, birds and coniferous trees. She provided the illustrations for Dallimore and Jackson's Handbook of Coniferae and F. J. Hanbury's Illustrated Monograph of the British Hieracia.

List of publications

2nd ed. (1911), revised and expanded with coloured plates by Gulielma Lister 3rd ed. (1925), ibid.

2nd ed. (1903) 3rd ed. (1909), revised by Gulielma Lister 4th ed. (1919), revised by Gulielma Lister Lister, G. (1913). New mycetozoa. Journal of Botany 51: 1–4, tabs 524–525. Lister, G. (1913). Mycetozoa found during the Fungus Foray in the Forres District, 12 to 20 Sep 1912, with the description of a new species. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 4: 38–44, 1 plate.