Jean Galbraith:

assisted Walling with plant identification and caption writing to accompany many of her unpublished photographs,

was a botanist, author, naturalist and conservationist,

received the Australian Natural History Medallion, 1970,

was a writer for 50 years, and contributed monthly to two magazines, "Australian Garden Lover" and the "Victorian Naturalist" under the pseudonym "Correa",

wrote for "The Age" newspaper,

was author of the following books:

"Doongalla Restored: The Story of a Garden", c1990

"A Garden Lover's Journal", 1943-1946, 1989

"A Gardener's Year", 1987

"Garden in a valley", 1985

"A Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of South-East Australia", 1977

"Wildflower diary": a memorial volume compiled from articles published in the "Junior Age" during the period 1960-64, 1976

With Waddell, Winifred,

"The Wonderful Butterfly: the Magic of Growth in Nature", 1968

"Wildflowers of Victoria", [1967]

"From Flower to Fruit", 1965

"Grandma Honeypot", 1962

"Grandma Honeypot", 1964

"Wildflowers of Victoria", [1950]

"Garden in a Valley", [1939]

Barbara Barnes, Walling's niece, comments:

Jean Galbraith had a working relationship with Aunt. Jean Galbraith was a botanist and she helped Aunt enormously with identifying plants. They went for trips together and shared a love of wild flowers and searching for wild flowers. Jean would identify them and Aunt would photograph them. They kept up a correspondence and that was definitely a professional correspondence as well as one of affection and companionship.

Jean didn't marry, she didn't have children, she was married to botany. I know she had to look after her parents for many, many years. The carer can often suffer as a consequence.

...Jean was immensely helpful when Aunt was trying to get a book published which was to do with a trip they had shared. It had three different titles one of which was "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye".

Jean identified all the photographs that Aunt took. Aunt stayed with black and white photography all her life. I think she might have been interested in the colour that's now available but certainly not in the 70s. Jean wrote reams and reams of very professional letters identifying plants and helping and doing the best she could.

Fortunately that book was eventually published by Victor Crittenden so Jean got proper recognition as well as Edna Walling which pleased me.
[This book was published posthumously and was titled, "On the Trail of Australian Wildflowers".]