Biographical entry Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904 - 1970)

Summary

Francis Noble Ratcliffe was Officer-in-Charge, Wildlife Survey Section, CSIRO to 1961, then Assistant Chief, Division of Entomology until his retirement.

Details

Born Calcutta, India, 11 January 1904. Died 8 December 1970. OBE. Educated University of Oxford (BA) and Princeton, USA. Senior Research Officer, Division of Economic Entomology, CSIR; seconded to Army as Major, Australian Army Medical Corps in medical entomology; Officer-in-Charge, Wildlife Survey Section, CSIRO to 1961; Assistant Chief, Division of Entomology 1961-?

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Published resources

Books

• Ratcliffe, Francis N., Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: the Adventures of a Biologist in Australia, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1938. Details
• Ratcliffe, Francis N., The Rabbit Problem: a Survey of Research Needs and Possibilities, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1951. Details

Book Sections

• Warhurst, John, 'Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904-1970), Ecologist and Conservationist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 61-62. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160070b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Francis Ratcliffe: the Australian conservation pioneer', Newsletter of the Australian Conservation Foundation, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, pp. 4-6. Details
• Coman, B.J., 'Francis Ratcliffe, Pioneer Conservationist', Quadrant, vol. 42, no. 1-2, 1998, pp. 20-26. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Francis Ratcliffe (1904-1970): Obituary', Search, vol. 2, no. 3, 1971, pp. 74-75. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Ratcliffe, Francis N', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-461881. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000732. Details
• Main, A. R., 'Horace Waring, 1910-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, pp. 116-121. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9810520116.htm. Details
• Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, pp. 98-114. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9810520098.htm. Details