Person

Dodd, Frederick Parkhurst (1861 - 1937)

Born
11 March 1861
Wickliffe, Victoria, Australia
Died
27 July 1937
Kuranda, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Entomologist and Bank employee

Summary

Frederick Dodd was known as the "Butterfly man of Kuranda". He gave up fourteen years of bank service to devote himself full-time to his hobby of collecting butterflies and beetles. The first five years were spent collecting in Brisbane, followed by five years collecting in Townsville, then Kuranda. He also made several shorter expeditions to places including Darwin and New Guinea. Dodd quickly became a prominent entomologist, acquiring a large insect collection and has many species named after him. His two daughters Elizabeth Frances (1903-1995) and Katharine Mary (1907-1995) and four sons all followed in his footsteps. Forty cases of specimens from Dodd's personal collection were donated to the Queensland Museum by his daughters. Specimens supplied to overseas collectors (including Walter Rothschild) are now in the Natural History Museum, London, and constitute one of the most important collections of Australian insects outside Australia. The stonefly genus Doddsia (family Taeniopterygidae) was named in his honour.

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Chronology

1899
Life event - Moved to Townsville, Queensland, from Brisbane
1904
Life event - Moved to Kuranda, Queensland
1908 - 1909
Career position - Collecting expedition to Darwin
1910 - 1911
Career position - Collecting expedition (six months) to Herberton
1917
Career position - Collecting expedition (five months) to New Guinea

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Books

  • Monteith, Geoff, The Butterfly Man of Kuranda: Frederick Parkhurst Dodd (South Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1992), 34 pp. Details
  • Monteith, Geoff, The Dodd Collection of Butterfly and Insect Cases (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 2010), 30 pp. Details
  • 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

Edited Books

  • McKay, Judith ed., Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1997), 80 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Coleman, D., 'George Lyell and Frederick Parkhurst Dodd: authority and expertise in nineteenth-century Australian entomology,', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 80 (2021), 169-81, https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv. 2021.80.09. Details
  • Musgrave, Anthony, 'The Dodd collection: a liberal education in entomology', Australian Museum magazine, 2 (3) (1924), 100-1. Details

Resources

See also

  • Moulds, M. S., 'The history of Australian butterfly research and collecting' in The biology of Australian butterflies, Kitching, R. L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R. E. and Pierce, N. E., eds (Melbourne: CSIRO Publications, 1999), pp. 1-24. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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