Person
Chisholm, Edwin Claude (c. 1880 - 1944)
- Born
- c. 1880
Australia - Died
- 23 April 1944
Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical collector, Entomologist and Medical practitioner
Summary
Edwin Chisholm was a medical practitioner who was also a keen amateur entomologist and botanical collector with a particular interest in eucalypts. He is known to have collected throughout New South Wales and at Prairie in Queensland. His contribution to botany in Australia was honoured by the naming of Eucalyptus chisholmii by Maiden and Blakely in 1924.
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Chronology
- 1924
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus x chisholmii Maiden & Blakely was named for Edwin Claude Chisholm
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
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61900686. Details
- 'Chisholm, Edwin Claude', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473856. Details
See also
- 'Eucalyptus x chisholmii Maiden & Blakeley', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?taxon_id=58778. Details
- 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
Gavan McCarthy; Christine Moje
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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