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).

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Chronology

1894 - 1920
Career position - Museum Assistant, National Museum of Victoria
1920 - 1922
Career position - Entomologist, National Museum of Victoria

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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

McCarthy, G.J.

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