Biographical entry Tryon, Henry (1856 - 1943)

Summary

Henry Tryon was Assistant Curator at the Queensland Museum 1885-94, but was seconded to the Queensland Department of Agriculture to work on pleuropneumonia vaccines and fruit-fly. In 1894 he became government entomologist and in 1901 vegetable pathologist.

Archival resources

Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland

• Henry Tryon - Records, 1915, D.1915 Try. F228; Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland. Details

Queensland Department of Primary Industry, Indooroopilly

• Henry Tryon - Records, 1893 - 1925; Queensland Department of Primary Industry, Indooroopilly. Details

Queensland State Archives

• Henry Tryon - Records, 1887 - 1925; Queensland State Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Logan, G. N., 'Tryon, Henry (1856-1943), Scientist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 272-273. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120305b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• White, C.T., 'Henry Tryon, First Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Queensland, and His Place in Queensland Science', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, vol. lvi, no. 8, 1945, pp. 44-80. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Tryon, Henry', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464849. Details