Australian botanist and university lecturer (1880-1957).
Bertha Clara Rees (1880–1957) was an Australian botanist and university lecturer. Rees was born in Brighton, Victoria in 1880, daughter of Clara Anna (née Wadelton) and solicitor David Curtis Rees. She passed the University of Melbourne matriculation examination in 1899, achieving honours in elementary anatomy and physiology and botany. Rees taught at Tintern Girls Grammar School where her students included Ethel Irene McLennan. She returned to the school in 1931 as guest of honour with McLennan, then associate professor of botany at the University of Melbourne. She also taught science at Syde