Biographical entry Jacobs, Maxwell Ralph (1905 - 1979)

Summary

Maxwell Jacobs was Principal of the Forestry School, Canberra between 1945 and 1961 and the Commonwealth Director-General of Forests from 1961 to 1970.

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Events

1928 - 1929

Career position - Chief Forester for the Australian Capital Territory

1932

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus jacobsiana Blakely, which was collected by Jacobs, was named in his honour

1934

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus niphophloia Blakely & Jacobs

1934

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. var. pendula Blakely & Jacobs

1934

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus abbreviata Blakely & Jacobs

1934 - 1939

Career position - Lecturer, Australian Forestry School

1934 - 1939

Career position - Research Officer, Australian Forestry and Timber Bureau

1944 - 1959

Career position - Principal and lecturer in Silviculture, Australian Forestry School

1960 - 1970

Career position - Director-General, Australian Forestry and Timber Bureau

1962

Award - Jolly Medal of the Institute of Foresters of Australia

1966 - 1969

Career position - Chairman of the Timber Industries Committee of the Standards Association of Australia

1975 - 1979

Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Maxwell Ralph Jacobs - Records, 1911 - 1959, MS 074; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Jacobs, M.R., A Survey of the Genus Eucalyptus in the Northern Territory, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Canberra, 1934. Details
• Jacobs, M.R., Growth habits of the eucalypts, Forestry and Timber Bureau, Canberra, 1955, 262 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Carron, L.T., 'Jacobs, Maxwell Ralph (1905-1979), Forestor', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 548-549. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140623b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Jacobs, Maxwell Ralph - Ms 74', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms074.html. Details
• 'Primary description of person CP 85; Maxwell Ralph Jacobs', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+85. Details
• 'Jacobs, M R (19050225-19791009)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-490593. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_j.html. Details
• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details