Person

Stuart, Charles (1802 - 1877)

Born
1802
England
Died
1877
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Natural history collector

Summary

Charles Stuart collected plants in Tasmania for R.C. Gunn from 1842 and for F. Mueller from 1847. He was based at Launceston and worked as a nurseryman. He later worked for Mueller in Melbourne and collected in the New England district. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 7,000 of Stuart's specimens.

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Chronology

1866
Taxonomy event - Collector of the type of and honoured with Eucalyptus stuartiana F. Muell. (1866) (= E. ovata Labill.)
1867
Taxonomy event - Collector of a syntype of Eucalyptus albens Benth.
1904
Taxonomy event - Collector of a syntype of Eucalyptus bancroftii Maiden

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Archival resources

National Herbarium, Melbourne

  • Charles Stuart - Records, 1848 - 1852, MSS M36; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Kennedy, D., Captain Charles Sturt (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1958). Details

Journal Articles

  • Daley, Charles (Chas), 'Charles Stuart, an Early Australian Botanist', The Victorian naturalist, 52 (October) (1935), 106-110; 132-107; 154-107. Details

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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
  • 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
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. 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.

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