Biographical entry Gillen, Francis James (1855 - 1912)

Summary

Francis James Gillen worked on the overland telegraph line from 1875 and was appointed the Alice Springs post and telegraph station master in 1892. He assisted on the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia in 1894 and later continued to work with W.B. Spencer.

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Events

1926

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus gillenii Ewart & L.R.Kerr was named in his honour

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Francis James Gillen - Records, 1901 - 1902; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Francis James Gillen - Records, 1901 - 1902, PRG 54; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science 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

Book Sections

• Mulvaney, D. J., 'Gillen, Francis James (1855-1912)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 6-7. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090007b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Morton, S.R. and Mulvaney, D.J. (eds), Exploring Central Australia: Society, the Environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney, 1996, 408 pp. Details
• Mulvaney, John, Morphy, Howard and Petch, Alison (eds), 'My dear Spencer': the letters of F.J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer, Hyland House, South Melbourne, 1997, 554 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Gibson, Jason, 'Addressing the Arrernte: F. J. Gillen's 1896 Engwura Speech', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2013, no. 1, 2013, pp. 57-72. Details

Online Resources

• 'Gillen, F J (1855-1912)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-476543. Details

See also

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details
• Mulvaney, John, '"Annexing All I Can Lay Hands On": Baldwin Spencer as Ethnographic Collector', in Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise (eds), The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2008, pp. 141-59. Details