Biographical entry Dallachy, John (c. 1803 - 1871)

Summary

John Dallachy was Overseer, then Superintendent, of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens from 1849 to 1857. He was then appointed Curator of the Gardens in 1857, when Ferdinand Mueller became Director. Dallachy held this position until 1861. During his time at the Gardens he made several expeditions throughout Victoria to collect botanical specimens. After leaving the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Dallachy had a brief stint at running his own nursery then moved to North Queensland to collect specimens for the Victorian herbarium.

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Events

1847

Career position - Manager of a coffee plantation in Ceylon

1848 - 1853

Career position - Overseer for the Melbourne Botanic Gardens

c. 1849

Career position - Expedition to the Baw Baw region

August 1849

Career position - Expedition to Mount Macedon

January 1850

Career position - Expedition to Mount Disappointment

August 1850

Career position - Expedition to Pentland Hills

1853

Career position - Expedition to Ovens Valley and Mount Buffalo

1853 - 1857

Career position - Superintendent of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens

1857 - 1861

Career position - Curator of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens

1858

Career position - Expedition to Wentworth and Mount Murchison

1860

Career position - Private nursery owner in Prahran, Victoria

1860

Career position - Expedition to Wimmera River and Lake Hindmarsh

1864 - 1871

Career position - Expedition and settlement at Rockingham Bay, Queensland

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Gross, Alan, 'Dallachy, John (1808?-1871), botanist and curator', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1972, p. 6. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040007b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Aitken, Richard and Looker, Michael (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002, 700 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Blake, S. T., 'Some Pioneers in Plant Exploration Classification', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Queensland, vol. lxvi, no. 1, 1954, pp. 1-19. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 25, 1908, pp. 101-117. Details
• Willis, J.H., 'Botanical Pioneers in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 66, 1949, pp. 83-89; 103-109; 123-107. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Dallachy, John', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469828. Details