Person
Burgess, Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorne (1907 - 1987)
Reverend
- Born
- 1907
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 1987
- Occupation
- Botanical collector, Botanist and Minister of religion
Summary
A Church of England curate at Parramatta, Colin Burgess was later stationed in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. During this time he collected and got to know the flora of the area very well. He held a position as a botanist with the Canberra Botanic Gardens (later named Australian National Botanic Gardens) in his later years. In 1963 he published his book Blue Mountain Gums, one of the best local hand-books for the amateur botanist at the time and yet technically of a high standard. He also collected elsewhere in New South Wales and in the Australian Capital Territory.
Details
Chronology
- 1972
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus burgessiana L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell was named for Burgess
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Burgess, Colin, Blue Mountain gums: a guide to the Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with a note on the Angophoras (Sydney: Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, 1963), 68 pp. Details
Resources
- 'Burgess, Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorne (1907-19871231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514377. Details
See also
- Fagg, Murray, 'Burgess, Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorne (Rev. ) (1907 - 1987)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/burgess-colin.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
Christine Moje
Created: 23 July 2012, Last modified: 7 April 2022
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