Person

Hobson, Edmund Charles (1814 - 1848)

Born
10 August 1814
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Died
4 March 1848
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Naturalist

Summary

Edmund Hobson, having started his medical studies in Hobart, completed those studies in London and at the University of Erlangen in Bavaria, While in London he made the acquaintance of Richard Owen. Hobson returned to Hobart in 1839, setting up a medical practice and becoming involved in the early days of what became the Royal Society of Tasmania. He helped established the first scientific magazine published in Tasmania, the Tasmanian journal of natural science, agriculture, statistics, etc. Ill-health caused Hobson to move to Melbourne in 1840, where he was appointed to the Victorian Medical Board and as physician of the Melbourne Hospital. He established connections with naturalists in central and western Victoria, including William Adeney and Patrick Mayne, and sent many of their fossil and other faunal collections to Owen.

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Chronology

1839 - 1840
Career position - In private practice in Hobart
1840
Life event - Moved to Melbourne
1844
Career position - Member, Victorian Medical Board
1847 - 1848
Career position - Physician, Melbourne Hospital

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Edmund Charles Hobson - Records, 1825 - 1937; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • 'Memoir of Dr Hobson', Illustrated Australian Magazine, 1 (1850). Details
  • Parris, H. S., 'From Melbourne to the Murray in 1839. Extracts From the Diary of a Pioneer Naturalist, Dr Edmund Charles Hobson', The Victorian naturalist, 66 (1950), 203-219. Details
  • Whitley, Gilbert P., 'Some Early Naturalists and Collectors in Australia', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, xix (1933), 291-304. Details

Resources

See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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