Person
Francis, William Douglas (1889 - 1959)
- Born
- 6 March 1889
Bega, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 2 January 1959
Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
William Francis was a member of the botanical staff at the Queensland Herbarium for 34 years from 1920 to 1954. He was Queensland Government Botanist from 1950, succeeding C.T. White, until his retirement in 1954. Francis is known for his 1929 work Australian Rainforest Trees which he wrote and illustrated with his own photographs.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Queensland Herbarium
- William Douglas Francis - Records, 1920 - 1959; Queensland Herbarium. 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
- Francis, William Douglas, Australian rain-forest trees: excluding the species confined to the tropics (Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Government, 1929). Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: W. D. Francis', Australian Journal of Science, 21 (7) (1959), 215. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3568565. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/6507985. Details
- 'Francis, W D (1892-19590102)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-471506. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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