Grasby, William Catton (1859 - 1930)

Summary

William Grasby taught in primary schools in South Australia and introduced nature study, drawing and science. He later taught at Roseworthy Agricultural College 1894-1896 and moved to Western Australia where he published "Principles of Australian Agriculture" (1912).

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Chronology

1929

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus grasbyi Maiden & Blakely, was named in his honour

Archival resources

Fisher Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney

• William Catton Grasby - Records, 1859 - 1930; Fisher Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney. Details

Private hands (Grasby, N.)

• William Catton Grasby - Records, 1859 - 1930; Private hands (Grasby, N.). Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Book Sections

• Ramsland, John, 'Grasby, William Catton (1859-1930)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 81-82. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090083b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Abbott, Ian, 'Mutual Help: Journalist William Catton Grasby of the Western Mail and his Influence in Western Australia', Early Days, 14 (1) (2013), 107-26. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8010120. Details
• 'Grasby, W Catton (1859-1930)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-571293. Details

See also

• 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