Person

Harrison, J. E.

Occupation
Agricultural scientist

Summary

J. E. Harrison was an officer at the Department of Agriculture in Victoria during the early to mid 1900s. He and others identified local strains of the subterranean clover and other pasture species, which lead to a rapid progress in pasture development.

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  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_h.html. Details
  • 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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