Person
Grayson, Henry Joseph (1856 - 1918)
- Born
- 9 May 1856
Worrall, Yorkshire, England - Died
- 21 March 1918
Clyde, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Nurseryman and Geologist
Summary
Henry Grayson worked as a nurseryman in New Zealand during the 1880s and for the nursery of Brunning & Sons after arriving in Victoria in 1887. His interest in botany and natural history led to has involvement in local scientific societies including the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and the Royal Society of Victoria. Grayson became widely acknowledged for his skill in preparing microscope slides of both biological and geological material, and for his invention and construction of apparatus for micro-ruling. Between 1898 and 1918 he was Laboratory Assistant successively in the Departments of Physiology, Geology and Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
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Chronology
- 1887 - 1898
- Career position - Nurseryman, Brunning and Sons, Melbourne
- 1898 - 1900
- Career position - Laboratory assistant, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne
- 1900 - 1913
- Career position - Laboratory assistant, Department of Geology, University of Melbourne
- 1901 - 1902
- Career event - Accompanied F. T. Gregory on his expedition to Lake Eyre
- 1901 - 1918
- Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1902 - 1918
- Career position - Associate Member, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1909 - 1918
- Career position - Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
- 1913 - 1918
- Career position - Laboratory Assistant, Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne
- 1917
- Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
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Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Henry Joseph Grayson - Records, 1900 - 1918; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Bolton, H. C., 'Grayson, Henry Joseph (1856-1918)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 87-88. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090090b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Bale, W. M., 'Obituary: H. J. Grayson', Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society (1919), 20-2. Details
- Bolton, H. C., 'The Development of Ruling Engines in Melbourne, 1890-1940: a Link between Amateur and Professional Science', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870640493. Details
- Bolton, H. C. and McNeill, J. J., 'H. J. Grayson: a pioneer ruler of diffraction gratings', Victorian historical journal, 52 (1) (1981), 63-6. Details
- Grayson, H. J., 'Diatoms: notes on their collection, cleaning and mounting', Victorian naturalist, 9 (7) (1892), 102-11. Details
- Grayson, H. J., 'Note on microscopical test rulings', Victorian naturalist, 11 (12) (1895), 163-4. Details
- Grayson, H. J., 'Description of a new dividing engine for ruling diffraction gratings', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, ns, 30 (1) (1917), 44-95. Details
- Holmes, W. M., 'Test rulings and diffraction gratings: some references to the work carried out by the late H. J. Grayson', Industrial australian and mining standard, 64 (8 July) (1929), 63-7. Details
- McNeill, J. J., 'Diffraction Grating Ruling in Australia', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 18-38. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230018.htm. Details
- Stone, W., 'Grayson's micro rulings', Journal of scientific instruments, 11 (1) (1934), 1-6. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5724089. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93161194. Details
- 'Grayson, Henry Joseph', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468652. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Grayson, Henry Joseph', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001250p.htm. Details
See also
- Gold, Ergad; Greener, Rosalie (Ed) ed., Inventive Vics Exhibition (Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scientific Industry Association, 1985), 58 pp. Optical Ruling Engines. Details
- Russell, K. F., 'William Stone (1858 - 1949): a pioneer in Australian radiology', Australasian radiology, 19 (3) (1975), 216-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1975.tb01950.x. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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