New Zealand. In the 1994 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to science. Her husband, Peter Bergquist, was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science, in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours. Legacy Numerous sponges have been named in her honour, e.g, Xestospongia bergquistia Fromont, 1991, Tethya bergquistae Hooper, 1994, Acarnus bergquistae Van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra, 1991, Plakortis bergquistae Muricy, 2011, and Phyllospongia bergquistae Wahab & Fromont, 2020. Bergquist featured as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words" project in 2017. See also Taxa named by Patricia Bergquist Death Patricia Bergquist died of breast cancer in Auckland on 9 September 2009, aged 76. References 1933 births 2009 deaths New Zealand anatomists Deaths from cancer in New Zealand New Zealand Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Deaths from breast cancer Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand People from North Shore, New Zealand University of Auckland faculty Yale University alumni 20th-century New Zealand women scientists Women anatomists New Zealand taxonomists Women taxonomists Women zoologists Spongiologists People educated at Takapuna Grammar School 20th-century New Zealand zoologists