Person

Batt, John David (1843 - 1919)

Born
20 January 1843
Guilford, Surrey, England
Died
5 September 1919
Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Farmer

Summary

John Batt was employed in the early 1880s to work at the Eucla telegraph station on the South Australia-Western Australia line. Between 1886 and 1896 he also collected botanical specimens which he sent to the Melbourne Herbarium. His work is commemorated in the names of Eremophila battii and Helipterum battiiand Templetonia battii, of which he collected the types.

Details

Chronology

1886 - 1896
Career event - Collected specimens for the Melbourne Herbarium
1895
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus kruseana F. Muell. Batt collected the type

Published resources

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Resources

See also

  • 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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