Person
Lawrence, Robert (1807 - 1833)
- Born
- 18 October 1807
England - Died
- 18 October 1833
- Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Robert Lawrence worked as a botanical collector in Tasmania, particularly the north of the state. A large number of his specimens were sent to Sir William Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was also an associate of Ronald Campbell Gunn and is responsible for introducing Gunn and Hooker. He is commemorated in species of several Tasmanian and mainland genera.
Details
Chronology
- 1847
- Taxonomy event - Collected the syntype of Eucalyptus coccifera Hook. F.
Archival resources
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History Collection
- Robert Lawrence - Records, 1807 - 1833; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History 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
- Burns, T. E.; and Skemp, J. R., Van Diemen's Land correspondents: letters from R. C. Gunn, R. W. Lawrence, Jorgen Jorgenson, Sir John Franklin and others to Sir William Hooker, 1827 - 1849 (Launceston: Queen Victoria Museum, 1961), 142 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7351099. Details
- 'Lawrence, Robert (1807-1833)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473399. Details
Theses
- Cave, Eleanor Catherine, 'Flora Tasmaniae: Tasmanian Naturalists and Imperial Botany, 1829-1860', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, 2012, 385 pp. Details
See also
- Brown, Austin J., 'Ronald Gunn's Tasmanian "agrostid" grass collections (Poaceae)', Muelleria, 40 (2022), 57-131. Details
- 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
- Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909 (1909), 9-29. Details
McCarthy, G.J., Moje, C. & Walsh, N.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 18 February 2014
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