Biographical entry Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874 - 1953)

Summary

Ronald Hamlyn-Harris was Director of the Queensland Museum 1910-17, City Entomologist, Brisbane City Council 1926-34 and then Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Queensland 1936-43. He worked for the Brisbane City Council to tackle the endemic filariasis problem.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records, 1934 - 1937, MS 41; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Queensland Museum Library

• Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records, 1910 - 1917; Queensland Museum Library. Details

Published resources

Books

• Mather, Patricia, A Time for a Museum: a History of the Queensland Museum, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1986, 365 pp. See pages 50, 53-55, 68, 73, 103, 105, 108, 126, 137-138, 162, 180, 182, 187, 192, 208, 210-211, 228, 269, 293 and 320-321. Details
• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Marks, E. N., 'Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874-1953), Entomologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 177-178. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090171b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1225673. Details