Person
Jenkins, Clee Francis Howard (1908 - 1997)
MBE
- Born
- 17 March 1908
Salisbury, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 13 July 1997
- Occupation
- Broadcaster, Entomologist, Naturalist and Ornithologist
Summary
Clee Jenkins was an entomologist who joined the Western Australian Department of Agriculture in 1933, serving as Government Entomologist from 1939 to 1964, and retiring as Chief of the Biological Services Division in 1973. He held several other offices under the Western Australian Government, including Chairman of the National Parks Authority, and President of the zoological gardens Board. Jenkins was active in scientific societies. He served terms as President of the Royal Society of Western Australia and of the Western Australian Naturalists Club. Both the Royal Society and the Western Australian Gould League elected him an Honorary Life Member. Kenkins was a prolific contributor to newspapers, and radio and TV broadcasting.
Details
Chronology
- 1929 - 1933
- Career position - Cadet, Western Australian Museum
- 1933 - 1938
- Career position - Assistant Entomologist, Western Australian Department of Agriculture
- 1935
- Education - BA, University of Western Australia
- 1939
- Education - MA, University of Western Australia
- 1939 - 1964
- Career position - Government Entomologist, Western Australian Department of Agriculture
- 1945 - 1946
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1945 - 1965
- Career position - Visiting Lecturer in Entomology, University of Western Australia
- 1959 - ?
- Career position - President, Western Australian Gould League
- 1963 - 1964
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1964 - 1973
- Career position - Chief, Biological Services Division, Western Australian Department of Agriculture
- 1966
- Award - Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1967 - 1968
- Career position - Chairman, Western Australian Division, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1971 - ?
- Career position - President, Zoological Gardens Board, Western Australia
- 1976
- Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for service as Chairman of the National Parks Authority and President of the Zoological Gardens Board, has given a lifetime of service to Western Australia as a scientist in the field of natural history
- 1978 - 1979
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1996 - 1997
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Royal Society of Western Australia
Related entries
Children
Published resources
Books
- Jenkins, C. F. H., The Noah's ark syndrome: one hundred years of acclimatisation and zoo development in Australia ([Perth]: Zoological Gardens Board of Western Australia, 1977), 147 pp. Details
- Jenkins, C. F. H., The national parks of Western Australia (Crawley, W.A.: National Parks Authority f Western Australia, 1980), 78 pp. Details
- Jenkins, C. F. H., John Gould and the birds of Australia ( [Perth]: Gould League of Western Australia, 1983), 132 pp. Details
- Jenkins, C. F. H., The wanderings of an entomologist (Claremont, W.A.: the Author, 1988), 95 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Jenkins, C.F.H., 'Glauert, Ludwig (1879-1963), museum curator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 25-26. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090024b.htm. Details
- Jenkins, C.F.H., 'Newman, Leslie John William (1878-1938), entomologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 14-15. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110015b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Jenkins, C. F. H., 'A history of the Royal Society of Western Australia, and its role in the community: Presidential address', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 48 (1965), 33-44. Details
- Jenkins, C. F. H., 'Biological control in Western Australia: Presidential address', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 32 (1979), 1-18. Details
- Jenkins, Clee F. H., 'Insect pests and their control', Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, series, 2 (3) (1961), 255-38. Details
- Jones, M. G. K., 'Obituaries: Clee F. H. Jenkins', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 80 (1997), 290. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55056222. Details
- 'Jenkins, C F H (1908-1997)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-463622. Details
See also
- 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
- Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details
Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn
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