Person

Henshall, Thomas Sharland (Tom) (1925 - 2020)

Born
25 December 1925
Victoria, Australia
Died
19 December 2020
Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanist, Orchardist and Plant collector

Summary

Tom Henshall was botanist whose early life was in the Murray Valley region of Victoria where for some years he ran an orchard. He started collecting plants for the National Herbarium of Victoria in 1964: the Herbarium holds approximately 800 specimens collected by Henshall. He moved to Alice Springs in the mid-1970s to become an herbarium technician at the Northern Territory Herbarium. His main interest was in the families Chenopodiaceae and Elatinaceae, encouraged by colleague Peter Latz. Henshall was a member of the Sunraysia Field Naturalists Club (then called the Sunraysia Field Naturalists Research Trust), holding office as President.

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Chronology

1964 - c. 1975
Career position - Plant collector for the National Herbarium of Victoria
c. 1975 - c. 1990
Career position - Herbarium technician, Northern Territory Herbarium, Alice Springs

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Published resources

Books

  • Henshall, T. [and others], Ngurrju maninja kurlangu: Yapa nyurnu kurlangu: bush medicine (Yuendumu, N.T.: Warlpiri Literature Production Centre, 1980), 24 pp. Details
  • Henshall, Tom S., A checklist of the plants of the far north-west of Victoria ( [Red Hills, Vic.?]: Sunraysia Naturalists Research Trust, 1968), 19 pp. Details

See also

Helen Cohn

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