Person

Barnard, Francis George Allman (1857 - 1932)

Born
1857
Kew, Victoria, Australia
Died
1932
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Entomologist and Naturalist

Summary

Francis Barnard was a foundation member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and edited their journal, "The Victorian naturalist", for 32 years.

Details

Chronology

1879
Education - Graduated as a registered pharmacist, University of Melbourne
1880 - 1923
Career position - Founding Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1884 - 1900
Career position - Honorary Secretary, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1892 - 1925
Career position - Editor, The Victorian naturalist
1895
Taxonomy event - Barnard collected one of nine subtypes of Eucalyptus bosistoana F.Muell.
1903 - 1905
Career position - Vice-President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1905 - 1907
Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1913 - 1932
Career position - Councillor, Kew Municipal Council
1915
Career position - President, Metropolitan Chemists Association
1920
Career position - Mayor, Kew Municipal Council
1923 - 1932
Award - Honorary Life Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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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

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Barnard, F. G. A., 'The southern science record', The Victorian naturalist, 16 (1899-1900), 112-113, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94958. Details
  • Barnard, F. G. A., 'Some early botanical explorations in Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 21 (1904), 17-28. Details
  • Barnard, F. G. A., 'Journeys of Dr. Neumayer in Victoria 1859-64', The Victorian naturalist, 34 (1918), 185-200. Details
  • French, C.; and Barnard, F. G. A., 'Notes on a holiday tour in Riverina and western Victoria [parts 1-2]', The Victorian naturalist, 3 (1886), 147-57, 170-2. Details
  • French, C.; and Barnard, F. G. A., 'Notes on a holiday tour in Riverina and western Victoria [part 3]', The Victorian naturalist, 4 (1887), 9-14. Details
  • P., E. E. [ie Pescott, E. E.], 'Francis G. A. Barnard, J. P.', The Victorian naturalist, 49 (7) (1932), 69-73. Details
  • Presland, Gary, 'F. G. A. Barnard: naturalist, historian and committed Kewite', Victorian Historical Journal, 90 (1) (2019), 121-33. Details

Resources

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