Biographical entry Laseron, Charles Francis (1887 - 1959)

Summary

Charles Francis Laseron was the assistant biological collector to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. In 1906 he joined the Technological Museum, Sydney and on his return from Antarctica was placed in charge of the geological and later the applied art collections.

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Events

1911

Taxonomy event - Description of eucalyptus campanulata R. T. Bak. & H. G. Sm. (1911), of which Laseron collected the type

1911

Award - Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales

1911 - 1913

Career position - Assistant Biologist on Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Expedition

1912

Taxonomy event - R.T. Baker named Eucalyptus laseronii R.T. Bak. (1912) in Laseron's honour

1926 - 1929

Career position - Officer-in-Charge, Applied Arts section of the Technological Museum, Sydney

Archival resources

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

• Charles Francis Laseron - Records, 1911 - 1914, UMS 466; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Charles Francis Laseron - Records, 1911 - 1914, ML MSS 385; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Charles Francis Laseron - Records, 1914 - 1915, ML MSS 1133; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Powerhouse Museum

• Charles Francis Laseron - Records, 1906 - 1929, MRS 4, 5, 15, 202, 89 ...; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Published resources

Books

• Laseron, C. F., South with Mawson. Reminiscences of the Australasian Expedition 1911-1914, 1947 edn, 1 vols, Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1947. Details

Book Sections

• Hall, Norman, 'Laseron, Charles Francis (1887-1958)', in Botanists of the Eucalypts, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1978, pp. 82-83. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Laseron, Charles Francis (1887-1959), Naturalist and Connoisseur', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 675-676. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090677b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Laseron, Charles F., 'Obituary: Sir Douglas Mawson', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 21, no. 5, 1958, pp. 134-135. Details
• McMichael, D. F. and Whitley, G. P., 'A Bibliography of Charles Francis Laseron with an Index to his New Genera and Species', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1958, pp. 114-121. Details
• Taylor, Griffith, 'Obituary: Charles Francis Laseron', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 22, no. 3, 1959, p. 108. Details

Online Resources

• 'Laseron, Charles Francis', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-497151. Details