Person
Hill, Gerald Freer (1880 - 1954)
- Born
- 16 February 1880
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 18 January 1954
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Naturalist and Entomologist
Summary
Gerald Hill was Naturalist to the Commonwealth Government Exploration Party, Central Australia and Northern Territory from 1911 to 1912. His research focused on mosquitoes and this led him to various positions including one at Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville (1919-1922). He also became the first entomologist appointed to the CSIR, where he worked from 1928 to 1941. In this period he turned his focus to the study of termites.
Details
Chronology
- 1912 - 1917
- Career position - Government Entomologist of the Northern Territory
- 1917 - 1919
- Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Fellow of Veterinary Science
- 1919
- Taxonomy event - He was honoured by J.H. Maiden with the naming of Eucalyptus hillii Maiden (= E. oligantha Schau. (1843))
- 1919 - 1922
- Career position - Entomologist to the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville
- 1922 - 1926
- Career position - Entomologist to the National Museum of Victoria
- 1928 - 1941
- Career position - Entomologist to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus apodophylla Blakely & Jacobs. Hill was joint collector of the type
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus nesophila Blakeley. Hill collected the type
Related entries
Archival resources
CSIRO Archives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Eleventh Monthly Conference of Senior Officers. October 1st and 2nd, 1929 - Minute of Meeting, 2 October 1929, Copy (pdf) held by the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation; Division of Economic Entomology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Tillyard, Robin John (1881 - 1937); CSIRO Archives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- Gerald Freer Hill - Records, 1911; National Herbarium, Melbourne. 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
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Gay, F. J., 'Obituary: Gerald Freer Hill', Australian Journal of Science, 16 (5) (1954), 182. Details
- Tillyard, R.J., 'Scientific papers from the Division of Economic Entomology published elsewhere than in the Council's publications', Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1932), https://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/339951?index=1. Details
Reports
- Tillyard, R.J., The work of the Division of Economic Entomology for the year 1928-29 (Melbourne: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia), 1929), 19 pp. https://doi.org/10.25919/2k6y-h875. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55047230. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/65520721. Details
- 'Hill, Gerald (18800216-19540118)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-625375. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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