Person

Fagg, Murray Allan (1947 - )

Born
1947
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanical artist, Botanist, Photographer and Web manager

Summary

With a keen interest in botany and Australian plants from youth, Fagg has been working at the Herbarium of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (formerly Canberra Botanic Gardens) since 1970. Since 2000, he has worked at the Botanical Information Group, managing the dissemination of botanical information and the image and photography collection.

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Details

Murray Fagg illustrated and published a range of botanical-horticultural books with John Wrigley. His private collection of 40,000 photographs of Australian plants and vegetation has been used widely for publications in both scientific and popular literature, including the online Australian Plant Name Index.

Chronology

1970 - 1980
Career position - Botanist, Australian National Herbarium
1980 - 2000
Career position - Director, Visitor Services, Australian National Botanic Gardens
2000 -
Career position - Web manager, Botanical Information Group, Australian National Botanic Gardens

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Lockwood, Leslie; Wilson, Jan and Fagg, Murray, Botanic gardens of Australia : a guide to 80 gardens (Sydney, NSW: New Holland Australia, 2001), 176 pp. Details
  • Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
  • Wrigley, John W. and Fagg, Murray, Australian native plants : a manual for their propagation, cultivation and use in landscaping (Sydney: Collins, 1979), 448 pp. Details

Resources

  • 'Fagg, Murray Allan (1947 - )', Oral History Project for the Gardens, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, 1995, https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/about/history/oral-history/fagg-1995.html. Details
  • Fagg, Murray, Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta, Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2009, http://www.anbg.gov.au/chabg/bg-dir/. Details
  • 'Fagg, Murray Allan (1947-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514343. Details

Resource Sections

  • Fagg, Murray and Higgins, Matthew, 'Murray Fagg interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995 [sound recording]', in Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995, Australian National Botanic Gardens, 1995. Details

See also

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