Person

Young, Jess (1852 - 1909)

Born
May 1852
Wisbech, United Kingdom
Died
8 October 1909
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Explorer

Summary

Jess Young (sometimes Jesse) accompanied Ernest Giles on the fourth of his explorations through Central Australia. This journey, from May to November 1875, crossed the continent from South Australia to Western Australia. Young's role was as naturalist. After the expedition Young returned to the United Kingdom and became a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. For much of the 1880s he was in the United States, returning once more to the United Kingdom in 1891 to take up a position with the Board of Agriculture. His later career included surveying in Siberia, and as a mining registrar and clerk of courts in Western Australia. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds approximately 250 specimens collected by Young, mostly while with Giles.

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Chronology

May 1875 - November 1875
Career position - Naturalist on Giles's 1875 expedition from South Australia to Western Australia

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Journal Articles

  • Milne, Pina, 'Retracing history through herbarium specimens', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 75-87. Details
  • Young, J., 'Recent Journey of Exploration Across the Continent of Australia', Journal of the American Geographical Society, 10 (1878), 116-41. Details

See also

  • Fagg, Murray, 'Young, Jess (1852 - 1909)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://anbg.gov.au/biography/young-jess.html. Details
  • Giles, Ernest, Australia twice traversed : the romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889). Details

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