Hill, Kenneth D. (1948 - 2010)

Summary

Kenneth Hill was a collector and classifier, a voracious reader and interested in plants from a young age. Briefly working as an exploration geologist in northern Australia and Sudan, in 1983 he commenced work at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, where he worked with Lawrie Johnson and Don Blaxell on the revision of the classification of eucalypts. Kenneth Hill published extensively on the systematics, ecology and biogeography of eucalypts, notably the bloodwoods (segregated as genus Corymbia), and cycads.

Details

From 1997 to 1998 he held the position of Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London. After his return to Australia, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney until his retirement in 2004. Using his highly developed computing skills, Kenneth Hill developed several original and innovative electronic products for the benefit of staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and the botanical and general community. He was also involved in the identification, naming, description and subsequent research on the Wollemi Pine. In collaboration with L.A.S. Johnson, he has described many more eucalypts than listed here.

Chronology

1983 - 1986

Career position - Technical Officer, National Herbarium of New South Wales

1986 - 1997

Career position - Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales

1995

Taxonomy event - Corymbia ficifolia (F.Muell) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

1997 - 1998

Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London

1999 - 2004

Career position - Senior Research Scientist, National Herbarium of New South Wales

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

• Hill, Ken, and Osborne, Roy, Cycads of Australia (East Roseville, New South Wales: Kangaroo Press, 2001), 116 pp. Details
• Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Hill, K.D., 'A taxonomic revision of the White Mahoganies, Eucalyptus series Acmenoideae (Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 8 (1999), 219-247. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 5. New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) in Western Australia.', Telopea, 4 (4) (1992), 561-634. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 6. A revision of the coolibahs, Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus section Adnataria series Oliganthae subseries Microthecosae (Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 5 (4) (1994), 743-771. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 8. A review of the Eudesmioid eucalypts, Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia. Telopea', Telopea, 7 (4) (1998), 375-414. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 9. A review of series Sociales (Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus, Section Bisectaria, Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 8 (2) (1999), 165-218. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 3. New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 4 (2) (1991), 223-267. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 4. New taxa in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 4 (2) (1991), 321-349. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, L.A.S., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 10. New tropical and subtropical eucalypts from Australia and New Guinea (Eucalyptus, Myrtaceae)', Telopea, 8 (4) (2000), 503-540. Details
• Hill, K.D.; and Johnson, Lawrence A.S., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 7. A revision of the bloodwoods, genus Corymbia (Myrtaceae)', 6 (2-3) (1995), 185-504. Details
• Hill, K.D.; Johnson, L. A.S.; and Blaxell, D.F., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 11. New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus Section Dumaria (Myrtaceae)', Telopea, 9 (2) (2001), 259-318. Details
• Johnson, L.A.S.; and Hill, K.D., 'Systematic studies in the eucalypts 2. A revision of the gimlets and related species: Eucalyptus extracodical series Salubres and Annulatae (Myrtaceae).', Telopea, 4 (4) (1991), 201-222. Details
• Jones, W.G.; Hill, K.D.; and Allen, J.M., 'Wollemia nobilis, a new living Australian genus and species in the Araucariaceae.', Telopea, 6 (2-3) (1995), 173-176. Details
• Stanberg, Leonie, 'Ken Hill, 6 August 1948-4 August 2010', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 144/5 (2010), 23-6. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q435038. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/48929574. Details
• Hill, Ken, The Cycad Pages, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, 1998, http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/. Details
• EucaLink: A Web guide to the Eucalypts. Eucalypt Classification, 2004, http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/Euc/. Details
• Kodela, Phillip; Tame, Terry; Conn, Barry; Hill, Ken, and Lee, Lin Lin, WattleWeb, in PlantNET - The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust., The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia, 1999, http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/WattleWeb/index.php. Details
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, New South Wales Flora Online, in PlantNET - The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust., The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia, 1999, http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm. Details
• 'Hill, Kenneth (19480806-20100804)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514401. Details
• Stanberg, Leonie, Ken Hill. 6 August 1948 - 4 August 2010, The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, 2010, http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/about_us/our_people/former_staff/ken_hill. Details

See also

• 'List of eucalypts published under this authority use author abbreviation search 'K.D.Hill and family 'Myrtaceae'', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni. Details
• Fagg, Murray, 'Hill, Kenneth (Ken) D. (1948 - 2010)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/hill-ken.html. Details