Person

Blake, Stanley Thatcher (1911 - 1973)

Born
1911
Died
24 February 1973
Occupation
Botanist

Summary

Stanley Blake worked for the Queensland Herbarium from 1945 until his death. Before joining the Herbarium he received Walter and Eliza Hall fellowship which allowed him to undertake botanical collecting expeditions to Western Queensland (1935 - 1937). He also carried out a special survey of potential rubber-producing plants in Queensland in 1939. Blake specialised in the taxonomy of tropical and subtropical grasses and Cyperaceae, Eucalyptus Idiospermaceae, Plectranthus and Melaleuca. He named one of the non-Australian eucalypts, Eucalyptus urophylla, which grows in Indonesia. Blake published extensively in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland and was a major contributor to the Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium. He was President of both the Royal Society of Queensland and the Queensland Naturalists' Club, and a life member of the National Parks Association. The Queensland Herbarium holds over 17,000 of his specimens.

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Chronology

1932
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Queensland
1934
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland
1935 - 1937
Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow gathering material for a comprehensive account of the plant communities of Western Queensland
1939
Career position - Special survey of potential rubber-producing plants in Queensland
1941
Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1942 - 1951
Career position - Editor, Queensland naturalist
1945 - 1973
Career position - Botanist (later Senior Botanist), Queensland Herbarium
1946 - 1947
Career position - Botanist, CSIRO Northern Australia Regional Survey
1953
Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland
1953
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus porrecta S. T. Blake
1956
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Queensland
1958
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus panda S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1958) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 69: 87
March 1964 - May 1965
Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew, England
1977
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus melanoleuca S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 6
1977
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus urophylla S.T.Blake (Indonesia) Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 7-9)
1977
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus henryi S.T.Blake (= Corymbia henryi (S.T.Blake) K.D.Hill & L.A.S. Johnson
1977
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus brassiana S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 1, fig. 1

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Archival resources

Queensland Herbarium

  • Stanley T. Blake - Records, 1944 - 1974; Queensland Herbarium. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Blake, S. T.; and Roff, C., The honey flora of south-eastern Queensland (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1958), 199 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Blake, S. T., 'Cyril Tenison White, 1890-1950', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 62 (1952), 35-48. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'Some Pioneers in Plant Exploration Classification', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Queensland, lxvi (1) (1954), 1-19. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Melaleuca leucadendron and its allies', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 1 (1968), 1-114. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'Studies in Cyperaceae', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 8 (1969), 1-48. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Carpobrotus and Sarcozona in Australia, genera allied to Mesembryanthemum', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 7 (1969), 1-65. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Plectranthus (Labiatae) in Australasia', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 9 (1972), 1-120. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'Revision of the genera of Cymbopogon and Schizachyrium (Gramineae)', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 17 (1974), 1-70. Details
  • Blake, S. T., 'Allosyncarpia ternata, a new genus and species of the Myrtaceae subfamily Leptospermoideae from Northern Australia', Austrobaileya, 1 (1) (1977), 43-46. Details
  • Blake, S.T., 'Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey: 1. Studies on Northern Australian species of Eucalyptus.', Australian Journal of Botany, 1 (2) (1953), 185-352. Details
  • Blke, S. T., 'Neurachne and its allies (Gramineae)', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 13 (1975), 1-53. Details
  • Everist, S. L., 'Stanley Thatcher Blake - botanist extraordinaire 1911 - 1973', Queensland naturalist, 21 (1/2) (1974), 31-2. Details
  • Gillam, Claire and Blake, S. T., 'The collections of Queensland mosses in the Queensland Herbarium', Australasian herbarium news, 14 (1954), 4-7. Details
  • Pedley, L., 'Stanley Thatcher Blake', Queensland naturalist, 44 (1/3) (2006), 17. Details
  • Smith, L. S.; Holland, M.; Marks, E. N.; and Blake, S. T., 'Index to the Queensland naturalist, vols 1 -15', Queensland naturalist, 15 (4/6) (1956), 86-117. Details

Resources

See also

McCarthy, G.J., Rosanne Walker & Helen Cohn

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