Person

Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846 - 1916)

Born
31 January 1846
Islington, England
Died
14 October 1916
Harvey, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Museum director

Summary

Bernard Woodward was government analyst for Western Australia from 1889-1895, at the same time serving as curator of the Geological Museum. By 1897 historical, ethnographical and fine arts material had been added, the institution became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, and Woodward became its director until his retirement in 1916. The botanist Joseph Maiden named Eucalyptus woodwardii Maiden (1910) in his honour.

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Born 31 January 1846. Died 14 October 1916. Assistant, department of geology and mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) 1848-?, arrived Western Australia 1889, government analyst 1889-1895, inspector of mineral oils 1893, examined problems in flour 1894, assistant examiner in patents 1896, curator, Geological Museum, Perth from 1889, director, Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 1897-1916. Foundation president 1896 and president 1914, Society of Arts, founder, Western Australian Natural History Society (the Royal society from 1912), president, Toodyay Vine and Fruit-growers' Association 1893-98. Commemorated by Woodward Park reserve,

Chronology

1889 - 1895
Career position - Government Analyst for Western Australia
1889 - 1916
Career position - Director of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery
1905 - 1906
Career position - President, Western Australian Natural History Society (1904 - 1909)
1910
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus woodwardii Maiden was named in his honour

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Woodward, Bernard, Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery (Perth: Ames and Heller, 1900), 100 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Crawford, Ian M., 'Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846-1916), museum director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 567-568. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120635b.htm. Details
  • Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. Details

Journal Articles

  • Mcnamara, Kenneth J.; and Radford, Susan P., 'Professor Tennant's fossils: a founding collection of the Western Australian Museum', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 111-27. Details
  • Paterson, Alistair; and Witcomb, Andrea, '"Nature's marvels": the value of collections extracted from colonial Western Australia', Journal of Australian studies, 45 (2) (2021), 197-220. Details
  • Zylstra, Baige, '"Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 59-74. Details

Resources

See also

  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details

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