Person

McAlpine, Daniel (1849 - 1932)

Born
21 January 1849
Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died
12 October 1932
Leitchville, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Agricultural scientist and Biologist

Summary

Daniel McAlpine was a lecturer in biology at the University of Melbourne from 1884 and a vegetable pathologist with the Victorian Department of Agriculture 1890-1910.

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Chronology

1884 - 1890
Career position - Lecturer in Biology, University of Melbourne
1890 - 1910
Career position - Vegetable Pathologist, Victorian Department of Agriculture

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

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

National Herbarium, Melbourne

  • Daniel McAlpine - Records, 1889 - 1894, MSS M37; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Private hands (Wedge, E.)

  • Daniel McAlpine - Records, 1849 - 1932; Private hands (Wedge, E.). Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Daniel McAlpine - Records, 1872 - 1926; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
  • Daniel McAlpine - Records, 1879, MS 8725; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley

  • Daniel McAlpine - Records, 1849 - 1932; Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley. Details

Published resources

Books

  • McAlpine, D., Systematic arrangement of Australian fungi, together with host-index and list of works on the subject (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1895), 236 pp. Details
  • McAlpine, D., Fungus diseases of citrus trees in Australia and their treatment (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1899), 132 pp. Details
  • McAlpine, D., Fungus diseases of stone-fruit trees in Australia and their treatment (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1902), 165 pp. Details
  • McAlpine, D., The rusts of Australia, their structure, nature, and classification (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1906), 349 pp. Details
  • McAlpine, D., The smuts of Australia, their structure, life history, treatment, and classification Agriculture (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1910), 288 pp. Details
  • McAlpine, D., Handbook of fungus diseases of the potato in Australia and their treatment (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1911), 215 pp. Details
  • Parbery, Douglas G., Daniel McAlpine and the bitter pit (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015), 252 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • White, Neville H., 'McAlpine, Daniel (1849-1932), vegetable pathologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 193-194. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100186b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Death of Daniel McAlpine', Australasian journal of pharmacy, 13 (1923), 933, 1003-5, 1037, 1096. Details
  • Fish, S., 'Daniel McAlpine: a pioneer plant pathologist of Australia', Australian Plant Pathology Society Newsletter, 5 (1) (1976), 11-13. Details
  • Ryley, Malcolm and Park, Robert F., 'Stem rust of wheat in colonial Australia and the development of the plant pathology profession', Historical records of Australian science, 35 (2) (2024), 83-97, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23005. Details
  • Ryley, Malcolm J., 'Wattle gall - the quintessential Australian plant disease', Historical records of Australian science, 35 (2) (2024), 116-29, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23006. Details
  • Ryley, Malcolm J. and Drenth, Andre, 'A matter of where and when - the appearance of Late Blight of potato in Australia', Historical records of Australian science, 35 (2) (2024), 213-22. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23009. Details

Resources

See also

  • Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - II', Victorian Naturalist, 66 (6) (1949), 103-9. Details
  • Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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