Person

Milligan, Joseph (1807 - 1884)

Born
1807
Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Died
1884
London, England
Occupation
Naturalist and Surgeon

Summary

Jospeh Milligan was surgeon to the Van Diemen's Land Company 1829-1842 and then held various government positions including that of medical officer and superintendent of aborigines. He was a founder of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land.

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"Milligan, Dr Joseph was appointed as surgeon to the Van Diemen's Land Company in 1830 and became interested in the natural history of the island. He formed a close acquaintance with Ronald Gunn and together they collected specimens for William Hooker at Kew Gardens." (Pybus 2024 page 286)

He and his assoiates were know to collect and trade in Tasmanian First People's remains. " He donated a skull to the Royal Society of Tasmania and subsequently sold skulls to various collectors in England, two purchased by George Busk and four by Joseph Barnard Davis, all six later donated to the Royal College of Surgeons." (Pybus 2024 pages 286-287)

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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

Books

  • Buchanan, A. M., The Tasmanian Collecting Localities of Ronald Gunn and Joseph Milligan (Hobart: Tasmanian Herbarium, 1988), 56 pp. Details
  • Burns, T. E.; and Skemp, J. R., Van Diemen's Land correspondents: letters from R. C. Gunn, R. W. Lawrence, Jorgen Jorgenson, Sir John Franklin and others to Sir William Hooker, 1827 - 1849 (Launceston: Queen Victoria Museum, 1961), 142 pp. Details
  • Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 7, 9, 11, 149, 169-171, 175-178, 183-184, 186, 197, 200, 237, 286-287. Details

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See also

  • Brown, Austin J., 'Ronald Gunn's Tasmanian "agrostid" grass collections (Poaceae)', Muelleria, 40 (2022), 57-131. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909 (1909), 9-29. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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