Person
Woolls, William (1814 - 1893)
- Born
- 30 March 1814
Winchester, Hampshire, England - Died
- 14 March 1893
Burwood, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Educator
Summary
William Woolls was an educationist who wrote on the flora and fauna of New South Wales. He taught at The Kings School and Sydney College before setting up his own school in Parramatta in 1841.
Details
Chronology
- 1891 - 1892
- Career position - Member of Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1900
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus woollsiana R.T.Baker
- 1917
- Taxonomy event - Collector of the type Eucalyptus beyeri R.T.Baker
Related entries
Colleague
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
- Angus & Robertson - Records, 1824 - 1933, ML MSS 314; 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
- H. Parkes - Records, A925; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- William Woolls - Records, 1885, ML MSS 873; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- William Woolls - Records, 1872 - 1890; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- William Wools - Records, P2/W; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- William Woolls - Records, 1871 - 1889, MSS M46; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
Powerhouse Museum
- Woolls, William, 1814-1893, 1886 - 1892, MRS 4, MRS 202; Powerhouse Museum. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 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
Books
- Gilbert, Lionel, William Woolls, 1814-1893: 'a Most Useful Colonist' (Canberra: Mulini Press, 1985), 138 pp. Details
- Thompson, M. M. H., William Woolls: a Man of Parramatta (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1986), 135 pp. Details
- Woolls, W., In Memory of R. D. FitzGerald (Sydney: 1892). Details
Book Sections
- Cable, K. J., 'Woolls, William (1814-1893)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 437-438. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060468b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Moyal, Ann: with Robert E. Marks, 'The scientists and Darwin's The origin of species in nineteenth century Australia: a re-evaluation', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 152 (1) (2019), 5-26. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1375232. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/58065464. Details
- 'Woolls, William (1814-1893)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618071. Details
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., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 3 August 2012
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