Figs 1–4 in The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

Figs 1–4. (1) Ansie enjoying tea with some colleagues from the Biosystematics division at the Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI). In the background are the many files with taxonomic literature on African spiders that would form the basis for the African Arachnid Database; (2) The storage room in the new Biosystematics building, with large numbers of spiders awaiting identification by Ansie; (3) Part of the Arachnology collection housed at the PPRI; (4) Ansie and Rudy Jocqué (right), together with Dr Jons Terblanche (former president of the Agricultural Research Council, centre), at the launch of their African Spiders book. Photographs courtesy of Robin Lyle.