Person

Swainson, William John (1789 - 1855)

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Born
8 October 1789
England
Died
7 December 1855
Occupation
Zoologist and Botanist

Summary

William Swainson was engaged by the Victorian and Tasmanian Governments in 1855 to investigate the colony's timber trees.

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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

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Linnean Society of London - Records, 1792 - 1870, FM 4/2699; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William John Swainson - Records, 1839 - 1849, ML MSS 561; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • William John Swainson - Records, 1829 - 1848, MS 519; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Linnean Society of London - Records, 1790 - 1870, M596-597; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Natusch, S.; and Swainson, G. M., William Swainson of Fern Grove F.R.S., F.L.S. &c: the anatomy of a nineteenth-century naturalist (Wellington: New Zealand Founder's Society Press, 1987), 184 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Natusch, Sheila, 'William Swainson, 1789-1855' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Journal Articles

  • Dwyer, John, 'William Swainson: La Trobe's other botanical appoimtnent', La Trobeana: journal of the C. J. La Trobe Society Inc., 19 (3) (2020), 26-36. https://www.latrobesociety.org.au/LaTrobeana/LaTrobeanaV19n3.pdf. Details
  • Galloway, D. J., 'The botanical researches of William Swainson, F.R.S., in Australasia, 1841-1855', Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 8 (4) (1978), 366-70. Details
  • Hooker, W. J., 'Mr Swainson's botanical report, principally relating to the eucalypti and casuarinae of Victoria, New Holland', Hooker’s journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany, 6 (1854), 186-90. Details
  • Knight, David M., 'William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator', Archives of Natural History, 13 (3) (1986), 275-90. Details
  • Maroske, Sara and Cohn, Helen M., 'Such Ingenious Birds: Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria', Muelleria, 7 (4) (1992), 529-553. Details

Resources

See also

  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', The Victorian naturalist, 25 (1908), 101-117. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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