Person

FitzGerald, Robert David (1830 - 1892)

Born
30 November 1830
Tralee, Kerry, Ireland
Died
12 August 1892
Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Surveyor and Botanist

Summary

Robert Fitzgerald worked in the New South Wales Department of Lands for some years before becoming Deputy-Surveyor-General in 1873 and Chief Mining Surveyor 1874-1882. He was a keen ornithologist and also published a major study of Australian orchids. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 250 of Fitzgerald's specimens.

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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

  • Robert David Fitzgerald - Records, 1874 - 1892; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

  • Robert David Fitzgerald - Records, 1871 - 1892, MSS M9; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Robert David Fitzgerald - Records, 1870 - 1890, MS 826; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Fitzgerald, Robert D.; lithographer Arthur Stopps, Australian orchids, 2 vols (Sydney: Government Printer, 1882 [ie 1875-1894]). Details
  • Olsen, Penny, A Botanical Life : Robert David FitzGerald (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013), 159 pp. Details
  • Woolls, W., In Memory of R. D. FitzGerald (Sydney: 1892). Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Messmer, C.A., 'The Biography of Robert David FitzGerald, FLS, and Arthur James Stopps, FLS', The Victorian naturalist, 48 (4) (1931), 233-245. Details

Resources

See also

  • 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
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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