Forgotten Australian #03 - Caroline Atkinson Mystery Cache

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Throsbyonchurch: Goodnight. Sad to see you go, but times a changing.

Couldn't find in situ - pretty sure it's been muggled by road workers. The area around it has been cleaned up. It's interesting most of these have disappeared yet a couple were still in place.

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Hidden : 8/1/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Forgotten Australian

Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson

Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson (1834-1872), naturalist and writer, born on 25 February 1834 at Oldbury near Berrima, daughter of James Atkinson and his wife Charlotte, née Waring. She was educated by her mother, and at an early age acquired some knowledge of geology and a keen interest in both botany and zoology. This interest strengthened in young womanhood when she and her widowed mother moved to the richly forested area of Kurrajong Heights. In her new home, Caroline studied plants, wrote articles on the subject, made many drawings and sent numerous specimens to eminent botanists, including William Woolls and Ferdinand Mueller, a valuable service that caused her name to be applied to a number of new species. Her rudimentary knowledge of birds and insects extended and an ability in taxidermy. Her Gertrude the Emigrant was published in Sydney in 1857 and two years later her Cowanda, the Veteran's Grant; authorship of the first was ascribed to 'an Australian Lady' and of the second to 'the Author of Gertrude'. In both books the writing is distinguished for descriptive passages. A number of her fictional works which appeared as serials in the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail between 1861 and 1872. There is, as well, compassion in the stories, a feeling which was expressed in practical fashion by Miss Atkinson in her charitable and church work at Kurrajong. The most notable of her writings, however, are those dealing with natural history, which were contributed to various journals in Sydney, and which, together with her drawings, were acclaimed by Dr Woolls. Late in the 1860s she and her mother returned to Oldbury, and on 11 March 1869 Caroline married James Calvert, who also was keenly interested in botany. She died on 28 April 1872, soon after giving birth to a daughter. Her name is commemorated in the Loranthaceous genus Atkinsonia, also Erechtites atkinsoniae and Epacris calvertiana. Additionally a horticulturally distinct fern ranking as a form of Doodia caudata was named in her honour D. atkinsonii.



A,B = What year was Caroline born? A = Third number. B = Fourth number.

C,D = When was Gertrude the Emigrant published? C = Third number. D = Fourth number.

E,F = What year did Caroline die? E = First number. F = Fourth number.



SAB AB.EBD E150 F6.FCC

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnl ba thneq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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