Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885 - 1970)

Summary

Charles Lane-Poole was Conservator of Forests, Western Australia from 1916 to 1926, and in 1922 undertook a survey of the timber resources of Papua and New Guinea. From 1926 to 1945 he was Inspector-General, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, and Acting Principal of the Australian Forestry School, Canberra.

Details

Chronology

c. 1909

Education - Diploma de l'Ecole des Eaux et Forêts (ICEF), Nancy, France

1910 - 1916

Career position - Conservator of Forests, Sierra Leone

1916 - 1926

Career position - Conservator of the Forests, Western Australia

1919

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lane-poolei Maiden, of which Lane-Poole collected the type, was named in his honour

1925

Career event - Appointed Forest Adviser to the Commonwealth Government

1926

Career position - President, Section K (Agriculture and Forestry), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1926 - 1945

Career position - Inspector-General, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau

1927 - 1944

Career position - Acting Principal, Australian Forestry School

1928

Career event - Elected Member (Botany and Forestry), Australian National Research Council

1937

Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

Related entries

Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, National Office

• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1924 - 1930, CRS A1; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1928 - 1947, CRS A431; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1925 - 1926, CRS A458; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1923 - 1945, CRS A518; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1930, CRS A1606; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1935 - 1936, AA1972/341; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1922, CRS A571; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1921 - 1923, CRS A6006; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1922 - 1944, AA1975/142; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1905 - 1970, MS 3799; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. 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

• Dargavel, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (Perth: Univesity of Western Australia Press, 2008), 252 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Carron, L.T., 'Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885-1970), forester' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 660-661. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090665b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Dargavel, John, 'From Exploitation to Science: Lane Poole's Forest Surveys of Papua and New Guinea, 1922-1924', Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (1) (2006), 71-90, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05014. Details
• Wood, M., 'Charles Lane-Poole and the Early Forest Surveys of Papua and New Guinea', Journal of Pacific History, 40 (3) (2005), 289-309. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5080058. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93749947. Details
• 'Lane-Poole, C E (1885-1970)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-582263. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Primary description of person CP 88; Charles Edward Lane-Poole', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CP%2088. Details
• Dargavel, John, 'Charles & Ruth Lane Poole', in Uncommon Lives, 2005, http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/life.asp?lID=7. Details

Reviews

• Dargavall, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
  Bartlett, Tony, Australian Forest History Society Newsletter, 51, (2009), 14-15. Details
• Dargavel, John, The Zealouis Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
  Bosworth, Michael, Studies in Western Australian History, 27, (2011), 208-11. Details
• Dargavel, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
  Bosworth, Michal, Studies in Western Australian History, 27, (2011), 208-11. Details
• Dargavall, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
  Brown, Nicholas, Historical Records of Australian Science, 20 (1), (2009), 133-135, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09005. Details

See also

• Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 142. Details
• Lennon, Jane, 'Norfolk Island pine', Australian Forest History Society Newsletter, 84 (2021), 16-9, https://www.foresthistory.org.au/afhs-newsletter-no-84-december-2021/. Details
• Roche, Michael; and Dargavel, John, 'Imperial ethos, dominions reality: forestry education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910 - 1965', Environment and history, 14 (3) (2008), 523-43, https://doi.org/10.3197/096734008X368420. Details
• Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730299. Details
• Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details