Margaret Stones, born in Australia in 1920, worked as the principal contributing artist for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, where she completed over 400 botanical drawings between 1958 and 1983. She contributed 254 drawings for a six-volume work, The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and her life’s work is the subject of Beauty in Truth: The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones, by Irena Zdanowicz. A member of the Order of the British Empire and the Order of Australia, Stones holds honorary degrees from the University of Melbourne and Louisiana State University.Lowell Urbatsch is associate professor of botany at Louisiana State University.
