Person
White, Samuel (1835 - 1880)
- Born
- 15 June 1835
St Johns Wood, England - Died
- 16 November 1880
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Ornithologist
Summary
Samuel White managed his father's property at Tatiara, South Australia from the 1850s and began collecting ornithological specimens. He led a number of expeditions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, as well as north of Australia. On one of these expeditions he found a new blue wren, Malurus callainus.
Details
Born London, 15 June 1835. Died Sydney, 16 November 1880. Arrived Australia 1842. Managed his father's station, Tatiara, in the south-east of South Australia during the 1850s. After his father's death in 1860 he began a series of collecting expeditions, including along the Murray River (1863, 1865); north of Lake Eyre 1863; west of Spencer Gulf 1865; Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria 1867-68; North Queensland 1871, 1878-79; Torres Straits islands 1878-79; Aru Islands, Arafura Sea 1880.
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Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Edward Pearson Ramsay - Records, 1860 - 1912, ML MSS 563; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Books
- White, S. A., The Life of Samuel White (Adelaide: 1920). Details
Book Sections
- Cunneen, Chris, 'White, Samuel (1835-1880), ornithologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 390-391. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060420b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Parker, S. A., 'Samuel White's Ornithological Explorations in Northern South Australia in 1863', South Australian Ornithologist, 28 (5) (1980), 113-119. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537793. Details
- 'White, Samuel (1835-1880)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469220. Details
See also
- Chisholm, A. H., 'Bird seeking in Queensland 1779 - 1922 (part 1-2)', Queensland naturalist, 3 (5) (1922), 66-70, 93-101. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 4 July 2012
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