Person

D'Alton, St Eloy (1850 - 1930)

Born
1850
Tipperary, Ireland
Died
17 December 1930
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Municipal engineer

Summary

St Eloy D'Alton migrated to Victoria in 1871 and settled in western Victoria where he was shire engineer in Stawell and later Dimboola and Nhill. He made the most of his opportunities while travelling in his professional capacity to collect plants in the Mallee, Wimmera and Grampians regions. His specimens were sent to Ferdinand von Mueller, Victorian Government Botanist, for identification. Mueller appreciated D'Alton's extensive knowledge of the local flora. D'Alton published several papers on this flora. On occasion he and Mueller were in the field together. D'Alton was invited by Mueller's successor, Alfred Ewart, to contribute to his Recording census of the Victorian flora (1908). The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 800 of D'Alton's specimens.

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Chronology

1871
Life event - Migrated to Victoria

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Published resources

Books

  • McKay, John; and Chappel, Keith L., A Wimmera pioneer and family, St Eloy D'Alton (1850 - 1930) (Cavendish, Vic: Jomac Services, 1999), 87 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Memoirs', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1932), 401-404. St Eloy Dalton, Honorary Member of Melbourne Division, p.402. Details
  • D'Alton, St E., 'The botany of the "Little Desert", Wimmera', The Victorian naturalist, 30 (1893), 65-78. Details
  • D'Alton, St E., 'Notes on the plants indigenous to the north-west of the colony of Victoria', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 455-67, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378443. Details

See also

  • Fagg, Murray, 'D'Alton, St Eloy (1850 - 1930)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://anbg.gov.au/biography/dalton-st-eloy.html. Details
  • George, Alex S., Australian botanist's companion (Kardinya, W.A.: Four Gables Press, 2009), 671 pp. Details

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