Person

Chippendale, George McCartney (1921 - 2010)

Born
18 April 1921
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
16 February 2010
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Taxonomic botanist

Summary

George Chippendale was a botanist specialising in Australian plants, particularly eucalypts. His Flora of Australia Vol. 19 Myrtaceae - Eucalyptus, Angophora (1988) established a new infra-generic system of classification of Eucalyptus. For this publication, he was awarded a Bicentennial Australia Day Medallion. He authored and co-authored many Eucalyptus species, which are listed in the Australian plant name index.

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Chippendale studied for a Bachelor of Science at Sydney University. In 1954 he moved to live and work in Alice Springs, where he collected many specimens to create the present Northern Territory Herbarium. In 1966 he became a staff member of the Forestry and Timber Bureau. From 1972-1973, Chippendale was Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This work lead to the publication Herbarium specimens of eucalyptus photographed in Europe (1976). George Chippendale published several books on eucalypts, including a book on fodder trees and on Northern Territory plants.

Chronology

1954 - 1966
Career event - First resident taxonomic botanist with the Northern Territory Administration
1966 - 1975
Career event - Senior Botanist, Forestry and Timber Bureau, Canberra
1972 - 1973
Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1975 - 1986?
Career position - Senior Botanist, CSIRO Division of Forest Research

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Published resources

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Books

  • Flora of Australia, Volume 19: Myrtaceae - Eucalyptus, Angophora (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988), 542 pp. Details
  • Boland, D.J.; Brooker, M.I.H,; Chippendale, G.M.; Hall, N, Hyland, B.P.M.; Johnston, R.D.; Kleinig, D.A.; McDonald, M.W.; and Turner, J.D., Forest Trees of Australia (East Melbourne: CSIRO, 1984), 687 pp. Details
  • Chippendale, G.M., Herbarium specimens of eucalyptus photographed in Europe (Canberra: Forestry and Timber Bureau, 1976), 82 pp. Details
  • Chippendale, George McCartney; Wolf, Ludek, The natural distribution of eucalyptus in Australia. (Canberra: Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1981), 192 pp. Details
  • Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Chippendale, George M., 'Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912-1977), botanist and conservationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 298-299. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130336b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Chippendale, George McCartney ed., Eucalyptus buds and fruits; illustrations of the buds and fruits of the genus with a list of authentic specimens from which the drawings were made (Canberra: Forestry and Timber Bureau, 1968), 96 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • McMahon, Joy, 'George McCartney Chippendale 18 April 1921-16 February 2010', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter (2010), 8-9. Details

Resources

See also

  • 'List of eucalypts published under Author Abbreviation search '%Chippend.%' AND Family: 'Myrtaceae'', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni. Details
  • Fagg, Murray, 'Chippendale, George McCartney (1921 - 2010)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://anbg.gov.au/biography/chippendale-george.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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