Person
Spry, Frank Palmer (1858 - 1922)
- Born
- 18 June 1858
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 8 August 1922
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Entomologist and Stonemason
Summary
Frank Spry was a stonemason and contractor's foreman, working in sewerage works round Melbourne. For 26 years from 1894 he was Assistant at the National Museum of Victoria. Becoming Entomologist in 1920. With E. Anderson he wrote Victorian butterflies and how to collect them (1893). Spry found many fossils around the Yarra River, including Bather's new crinoid and Gregoriura spyri (brittle-star).
Details
Chronology
- 1894 - 1920
- Career position - Museum Assistant, National Museum of Victoria
- 1920 - 1922
- Career position - Entomologist, National Museum of Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Anderson, Ernest and Spry, Frank Palmer, Victorian butterflies and how to collect them (Melbourne: H. Herne, 1893), 129 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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55072820. Details
- 'Spry, Frank Palmer (18580618-19220808)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-556793. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 June 2024
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