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.

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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 Corporate Bodies

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

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

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Resource Sections

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.

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