Person
French, Charles (1842 - 1933)
- Born
- 10 September 1842
Lewisham, Kent, England - Died
- 21 May 1933
Malvern, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Naturalist and Entomologist
Summary
Charles French worked as a nurseryman in Victoria from 1858. In 1864 he was appointed to the staff of the Botanic Gardens and in 1873 was in charge of fern and tropical plant propagation. He was made Victorian Government Entomologist in 1889.
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Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Edward Pearson Ramsay - Records, 1860 - 1912, ML MSS 563; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley
- Charles (2) French - Records, 1891 - 1920; Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley. Details
Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Pescott, R. T. M., 'French, Charles (1842-1933) and Charles Hamilton (1868-1950)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 585-586. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080602b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Hogan, T. W., 'The History of Economic Entomology in Victoria from the Time of Charles French', Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 33 (3) (1994), 279-288. Details
- Malipatil, Mallik B.; Sermeraro, Linda; and New, Tim R., 'Review and update of the nomenclature of arthropods discussed by Charles French in his work A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 138 (5) (2021), 128-44. Details
- Pescott, E.E., 'Charles French', The Victorian naturalist, 50 (7) (1933), 57-60. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5077883. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91413411. Details
- 'French, C (1842-1933)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-612666. Details
See also
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
- Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - II', Victorian Nnaturalist, 66 (6) (1949), 103-9. Details
- Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 July 2006
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