Person

Brown, John Ednie (1848 - 1899)

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Born
1848
Scotland
Died
26 October 1899
Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Forester

Summary

John Brown worked for government forestry institutions in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. In 1882 his book The forest flora of South Australia was published. Botanical illustrator Rosa Fiveash worked with lithographer H. Barrett to illustrate this work (1882-1890).

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Assistant agent and forester, Invercauld estate, Aberdeenshire; laid out plantations and managed estates, Yorkshire and Sussex.

Chronology

1864 - 1866
Career position - Nursery and Forest management, apprenticed to his father's forestry business, Scotland and England
1866 - 1871
Career position - Assitant Agent, Forester, and Estate Manager, United Kingdom
1871 - 1872
Career position - Forester, United States of America and Canada
1878 - 1882
Career position - Conservator of Forests, South Australian Forests Board
1882
Career event - Published book The forest flora of South Australia
1883
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus leucoxylon var. pauperita J.E.Br.
1883
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus leucoxylon var. macrocarpa J.E.Br.
1883 - 1890
Career position - Conservator of Forests, South Australian Woods and Forests Department
1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1888<
Career event - Fellow, Linnean Society, London (FLS)
1890
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lansdowneana F.Muell. & J.E.Br.
1890 - 1894
Career position - Director-General of Forests, New South Wales Forest Conservancy Branch
1895
Career position - Examiner of Forests, Western Australian Bureau of Agriculture
1896 - c. 1899
Career position - Conservator, Western Australian Wood and Forests Department

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

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See also

  • 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 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'A century of botanical endeavour in South Australia', Report of the eleventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 11 (1908), 158-199, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14539732. Details

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