Person
Ferguson, Eustace William (1884 - 1927)
- Born
- 24 October 1884
Invercargill, New Zealand - Died
- 18 July 1927
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Pathologist and Entomologist
Summary
Eustace Ferguson was principal microbiologist for the New South Wales Department of Health from 1920. He was also a noted entomologist who specialised in the study and distribution of Australian insects capable of spreading disease (especially fleas, ticks, biting flies and mosquitoes). Ferguson published many scientific articles on subjects such as diphtheria, dengue fever and medical entomology and parasitology. Eustace Ferguson was a member of many professional bodies including the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Institute of Tropical Medicine (London), the Great Barrier Reef Committee and an associate member of the National Research Council.
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Chronology
- 1894
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Sydney) with family
- 1908 -
- Career position - Member of the Linnean Society
- 1908
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1908 - 1910
- Career position - Junior Medical Officer and Pathologist at Sydney Hospital
- 1909
- Education - Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1911
- Career position - Private practice with Dr Walton Smith
- 1912
- Career position - Medical Officer at Rydalmere Hospital for the Insane
- 1913 - 1915
- Career position - Assistant Microbiologist at the Department of Public Health in New South Wales
- 1915 - 1916
- Career position - Captain with the Australian Army Medical Corps at the No. 10 Australian General Hospital in London and the No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Harefield
- 1917
- Career position - No.3 Australian General Hospital in France and Egypt
- August 1918 - March 1919
- Career position - Major and Head of the ANZAC Field Laboratory (7-8 month post) in Palestine
- September 1919
- Career position - Returned to Sydney and the Department of Public Health
- 1920
- Career position - Principal Microbiologist at the Department of Public Health
- 1922 - 1923
- Career position - President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
- 1926
- Education - Diploma in Public Health completed at the University of Sydney
- 1926 - 1927
- Career position - President of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
Related entries
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
- Vallee, Peter, 'Ferguson, Eustace William (1884-1927)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 484-485. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080510b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Cambage, R. H., 'Chairman's address', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 53 (1) (1928), i-viii. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5414315. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93853927. Details
- 'Ferguson, Eustace W (1884-1927)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-586438. Details
See also
- Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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