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Biographical entry Johnston, Robert Mackenzie (1843 - 1918)
- Born
- 27 November 1843
Connage, Inverness, Scotland - Died
- 20 April 1918
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Statistician and Naturalist
- Alternative Names
- Johnstone, Robert Mackenzie
Summary
Robert Mackenzie Johnston arrived in Tasmania in 1870 and after working as an accountant for the Launceston and Western Railway and Government Railways was appointed Government Statistician and Registrar-General 1882. Johnston was also interested in botany and geology, and he explored and collected specimens widely throughout Tasmania
Details
Events
- 1882 - 1918
- Career position - Government Statistician and Registrar-General of Tasmania
- 1888
- Career event - Published The Geology of Tasmania
- 1922
- Taxonomy event - The Eucalyptus johnstonii Maiden (1922) was named after Johnston.
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Royal Society of Tasmania
- Robert Mackenzie Johnston - Records, 1871 - 1899, Ms 76, RSA/A.17(J); Royal Society of Tasmania. Details
University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection
- Robert Mackenzie Johnston - Records, 1882 - 1884, J.3; University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection. Details
Published resources
Books
- 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, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details
- Wrigley, J.; & Fagg, M., Eucalypts: A Celebration, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest Australia, 2010, 344 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Wettenhall, R. L., 'Johnston, Robert Mackenzie (1843-1918)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 501-503. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090498b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Australian Botanists', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. lv, 1921, pp. 60-132; 150-169. Details
Online Resources
- 'Johnston, R M', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-627224. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 12 July 2012
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