Person
Oldfield, Augustus Frederick (1820 - 1887)
- Born
- 12 January 1820
London, England - Died
- 22 May 1887
- Occupation
- Botanical collector and Botanist
Summary
Augustus Oldfield was a botanical collector in Tasmania in the late 1850s. He made major collections along the coast of Western Australia from the Murchison River to King George Sound, as well as across the Nullabor Plain. A collection of Oldfield's specimens (over 3,500 sheets) is housed in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Details
Chronology
- 1860
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus eudesmioides F. Muell. Oldfield collected the type or syntype
- 1860
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus erythrocorys F. Muell. Oldfield collected the type
- 1860
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus oldfieldii F. Muell. Was named for Oldfield, who also collected the type
- 1866
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus patens Benth. Oldfield collected the type or syntype
- 1867
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus redunca Schau. var. elata Benth. (= E. wandoo Blakely (1934)). Oldfield collected the type or syntype material
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
- Augustus Frederick Oldfield - Records, 1865 - 1887; Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. 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
- Henderson, M. Helen; and Henderson, William G., The greater prize than gold: Augustus Oldfield, nineteenth century botanical collector and ethnographer (Perth, W.A.: The Book Reality Experience, 2018), 520 pp. Details
- Oldfield, Augustus, On the Aborigines of Australia, with an introduction by Helen HENDERSON (Carlisle, W.A.: Herpserian Press, 2005), 74 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Murray, Tim, 'Mr Miles, Mr Oldfield and Professor Huxley: early thoughts on the origins of the Australians', Bulletin of the history of archaeology, 33 (1) (2023), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-671. Details
- Murray, Tim, 'Mr Miles, Mr Oldfield and Professor Huxley: early thoughts on the origins of the Australians', Bulletin of the history of archaeology, 33 (1) (2023), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-671. Details
- Oldfield, Augustus, 'On the Aborigines of Australia', Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, 3 (1865), 215-98. https://doi.org/10.2307/3014165. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4821426. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/29286812. Details
- 'Oldfield, Augustus Frederick (1821-1887)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476953. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Oldfield, Augustus F. (1820-1887)', in Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators 1780s-1980s, Australian National Botanic Gardens, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/oldfield-augustus.html. Details
Reviews
- Henderson, M. Helen and Henderson, William G., The greater prize than gold: Augustus Oldfield, nineteenth century botanical collector and ethnographer (2018)
George, Alex, 'Another biography of a major Australian plant collector: Augustus Oldfield', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 177, (2018), 58-61. Details
See also
- Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909 (1909), 9-29. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 August 2022
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