Person

Gardner, Charles Austin (1896 - 1970)

MBE

Born
6 January 1896
Gressingham, Lancashire, England
Died
24 February 1970
Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanist, Conservationist and Educator

Summary

Botanist Charles Gardner was the Government Botanist of Western Australia from 1927 to 1962 and also lectured in Botany at the University of Western Australia for almost 40 years (1924-1962). After his retirement in 1962 he became a member of the State Gardens Board (later National Parks Board) and had a role in securing 5 extensive areas as flora reserves.

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Chronology

1920 - 1921?
Career position - Botanical collector, West Australian Forests Department
1921
Career position - Botanist to the Kimberley Exploration Expedition under Surveyor W. R. Easton
1923
Career event - Published Botanical Notes, Kimberley Division of Western Australia, Forests Department Bulletin No. 32
1924
Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus gardneri Maiden
1924 - 1928
Career position - Botanist, West Australian Department of Agriculture
1924 - 1962
Career position - Lecturer in Botany, University of Western Australia
1925
Taxonomy event - Collector of the type Eucalyptus albida Maiden & Blakely
1925
Taxonomy event - Collector of the type Eucalyptus desmondensis Maiden & Blakely
1925
Taxonomy event - Collector of the type Eucalyptus ovularis Maiden & Blakely
1928
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus carnei C.A. Gardner
1928 - 1962
Career position - Government Botanist and Curator of the State Herbarium
1934
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus coronata C.A. Gardner
1937 - 1939
Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England
1941 - 1942
Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
1949
Award - Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
1950
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus oleosa var. plenissima C.A. Gardner
1950
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus oleosa var. obtusa C.A. Gardner
1952 - 1966
Career event - Published the series "Trees of Western Australia" in the Journal of agriculture, Western Australia
1961
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1964
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus cupularis C.A. Gardner
1969
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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Archival resources

Western Australia Herbarium

  • Charles Austin Gardner - Records, 1923 - 1937; Western Australia Herbarium. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Dell, Edgar; descriptions by C. A. Gardner, Poison plants of south-western Australia (Perth: West Australian Newspapers, 1937), 40 pp. Details
  • Gardner, C. A., Botanical notes : Kimberley Division of Western Australia (Perth: Government Printer, 1923), 105 pp. Details
  • Gardner, C. A., Enumeratio plantarum australiae occidentalis : a systematic census of the plants occurring in Western Australia (Perth: Government Printer, 1930), 150 pp. Details
  • Gardner, C. A.; and Bennetts, H. W., The toxic plants of Western Australia (Perth: West Australian Newspapers, 1956), 253 pp. Details
  • Gardner, C. A.; illustrated by Edgar Dell, West Australian wildflowers (Perth: West Australian Newspapers, 1941), 116 pp. Details
  • Kessell, S.L.; and Gardner, C.A., Key to the eucalypts of Western Australia: with descriptive and botanical notes concerning all arborescent species of eucalyptus known to be indigenous to Western Australia (Perth, W.A.: Forests Department, 1924), 128 pp. Details

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Journal Articles

  • 'Obituary: C. A. Gardner, MBE', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 53 (2) (1970), 63. Details
  • 'Obituary: C. A. Gardner, MBE', Western Australian Naturalist, 11 (7) (1970), 168-172. Details
  • Gardner, Walter, 'Charles Austin Gardner, MBE: From Boyhood to a Life of Great Achievement', New Norcia Studies, 11 (September) (2003), 38-48. Details
  • Marchant, Neville, 'Documenting a flora: a History of the Western Australian Herbarium and its Collections', Early Days: Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 12 (2005), 566-83. Details
  • Perry, D. H., 'In the Footsteps of James Drummond with Charles Austin Gardner', Western Australian Naturalist, 11 (8) (1971), 178-180. Details

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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
  • Underwood, Roger, A Botanical Journey: the Story of the Western Australian Herbarium (Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation, 2011), 282 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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