Person
Barnard, James (1809? - 1897)
- Born
- 1809?
Hackney, United Kingdom - Died
- 20 April 1897
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Ethnographer, Printer and Statistician
Summary
James Barnard was Government Printer in Van Diemen's Land (1838-1880) and also a skilled statistician, ethnographer and amateur scientist. He was an original member of the Tasmanian Society (later the Royal Society of Tasmania) and published their journal Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science. Barnard wrote many articles on varied topics including Tasmanian Aboriginals, the growing of beetroot and sugar manufacture, and the acclimatization of esparto grass for paper making.
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Chronology
- 1888 -
- Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
Book Sections
- Morris, J. R., 'Barnard, James (1809?-1897)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), pp. 58-59. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010056b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Barnard, James, 'On the technology of a beet sugar factory, for working up the produce of five hundred acres of beet', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1872 (1873), 57-64. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539378. Details
- 'Barnard, James (1809-1897)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467162. Details
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Created: 17 October 2006, Last modified: 7 February 2011