Person

Longman, Heber Albert (1880 - 1954)

Born
24 June 1880
Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
Died
16 February 1954
Chelmer, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Museum director, Zoologist and Palaeontologist

Summary

Heber Longman was a zoologist and palaeontologist who ran a newspaper in Toowoomba, Queensland, before joining the staff of the Queensland Museum in 1911. As Director of the Museum from 1918 to 1945 he was successful in raised the profile and reputation of the Museum while at the same time producing a large number of papers on a wide range of zoological subjects. He gained an international reputation for his contributions to vertebrate palaeontology, describing new genera of dinosaurs, marine reptiles, fish and marsupials, including a giant fish-lizard Kronosaurus queenslandicus and a wombat-like mammal Euiyzygoma dunense. Longman was a keen member of local naturalists' societies, being a founding member of the Toowoomba Field Naturalists' Club and President of the Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland. In retirement he was in demand for lectures and broadcasts and wrote a regular column "Nature's ways" for Brisbane's daily newspaper, the Courier Mail.

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Chronology

1902
Life event - Migrated to Queensland
1911 - 1917
Career position - Scientific Assistant, Queensland Museum
1913
Career position - President, Field Naturalist's Club of Queensland
1917 - 1918
Career position - Acting Director, Queensland Museum
1918 - 1945
Career position - Director, Queensland Museum
1919
Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland
1924 - 1930
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
1930
Career event - Elected Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1939
Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland
1945
Life event - Retired
1946
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1952
Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Heber Albert Longman - Records, 1900 - 1954, MS 006; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Queensland Museum Library

  • Heber Albert Longman - Records, 1911 - 1945; Queensland Museum Library. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Longman, H. A., Religion of a Naturalist (London: Watts, 1914). Details

Book Sections

  • Gill, J. C. H., 'Longman, Albert Heber (1880-1954), newspaper publisher and museum director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 138-139. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100130b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Filmer, Ivor, 'Heber Albert Longman (1880 - 1954)', Queensland Naturalist, 44 (1/3) (2006), 43. Details
  • Herbert, D. A., 'Heber Albert Longman', Queensland Naturalist, 15 (1/2) (1954), 38-40. Details
  • Herbert, D.A., 'Heber Albert Longman', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, lxvi (7) (1954), 83-88. Details
  • Turner, Susan, 'Heber Albert Longman (1880-1954), Queensland Museum scientist: a new bibliography', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51 (1) (2005), 237-257. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • Amey, Andrew P. and Couper, Patrick J., 'Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - nature: 64: 19-259, 64 (2022), 19-259. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2020-12. Details
  • Dahlitz, Ray, Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards (Balwyn, Victoria: R. Dahlitz, 1994), 192 pp. p.102. Details
  • Mather, Patricia, A Time for a Museum: a History of the Queensland Museum (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986), 365 pp. See pp. 321-3. Details

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