Parker, Thomas Jeffrey (1850 - 1897)

Summary

T. J. Parker was a New Zealand naturalist who corresponded with E.P. Ramsay, curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, between 1860 and 1894. With William Haswell, Challis Professor of Biology at the University of Sydney, Parker co-authored A textbook of zoology (1897) which was published in several editions.

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Chronology

1880

Career position - Professor of Biology and Curator of the Museum, Otago University

1880

Life event - Migrated to New Zealand

1888

Career position - Fellow, Royal Society, London

1892

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of London

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Crane, R., 'Show and tell: TJ Parker and late nineteenth-century science in Dunedin', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Special issue (2016), 1-6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2016.1207671. Details
• Crane, Rosi, '"A dangerous visionary"? The lectures of the evolutionist T.J. Parker', Journal of New Zealand Studies, 15 (2013), 36-49. Details
• Crane, Rosi, 'Creating Parker and Haswell's A textbook of zoology (1897)', Script and Print, 39 (4) (2015), 221-40. Details
• Crane, Rosi, 'A "strange fauna": T. J. Parker (1850-1897) and the creation of zoological knowledge in Otago', New Zealand Journal of History, 49 (2) (2015), 60-80. Details
• Parker, F. Jeffrey [Parker, T. Jeffrey], 'Note on the nomenclature of the sexual organs in plants and animals', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 338-343, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813428. Details

Resources

• 'Parker, Thomas Jeffrey', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473693. Details

Theses

• Crane, Rosemary Helen Beatrice, 'Evolution made visible: the worlds of Thomas Jeffrey Parker (1850-1897) the noted New Zealand zoologist', PhD thesis, University of Otago Press, 2015, 382 pp. Details