Person
Ewart, Alfred James (1872 - 1937)
FRS
Ewart, Alfred James Portrait
Details
- Born
- 12 February 1872
Toxeth Park, Lancashire, England - Died
- 12 September 1937
East Malvern, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Plant physiologist
Summary
Alfred Ewart was the first Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne 1906-1937 and until February 1921 was also the Victorian Government Botanist. Although trained in England, he published widely on Australian flora and travelled extensively throughout the country. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1920-1921.
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Chronology
- 1898 - 1937
- Career position - Fellow, Linnean Society, London
- 1900
- Career event - Published First Stage Botany
- 1900 - 1906
- Career event - Translated W. Pfeffer's three volume publication The Physiology of Plants
- 1902
- Career event - Published New Matriculation Botany, later published as Ewart's Elementary Botany
- 1903
- Career event - Published On the Physics and Physiology of Protoplasmic Streaming in Plants,
- 1906 - 1921
- Career position - Victorian Government Botanist
- 1906 - 1937
- Career position - Chair of Botany, University of Melbourne
- 1908 - 1937
- Career position - Chairman, Forestry Examination Board, Victoria
- 1909
- Career event - Published The Weeds, Poison Plants and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria
- 1909 - 1910
- Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1910
- Taxonomy event - Ewartia named by G. Beauverd in Ewart's honour
- 1917
- Career event - Published The Flora of the Northern Territory, co-authored with Olive B. Davies
- 1919
- Taxonomy event - J.H. Maiden named Eucalyptus ewartiana Maiden (1919) in Ewart's honour
- 1921 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Botany), Australian National Research Council
- 1925
- Career event - Published Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters
- 1926
- Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1926
- Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus gillenii Ewart & Kerr (1926) (Blakely states = Eucalyptus morrisii R. T. Bak
- 1930
- Career event - Published Flora of Victoria
Related entries
Archival resources
Private hands (Chambers, T.C.)
- Alfred James Ewart - Records, 1872 - 1937; Private hands (Chambers, T.C.). Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Ewart, A., Recording census of the Victorian flora (Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1908), 98 pp. Details
- Gillbank, Linden, From System Garden to Scientific Research: The University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its First Two Professors (1906-1973) (Parkville, Vic.: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 2010), 38 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Chambers, T. C., 'Ewart, Alfred James (1872-1937), Botanist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 448-450. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080474b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Cohn, Helen M., 'Watch Dog Over the Herbarium: Alfred Ewart, Victorian Government Botanist, 1906-1921', Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (2) (2005), 139-167. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05009. Details
- Gillbank, Linden, 'The University of Melbourne Herbarium, from McCoy to MELU: a broken paper-trail', University of Melbourne Collections, 1 (2007), 20-8. Details
- Stiles, W., 'Alfred James Ewart 1872 - 1937', Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2 (7) (1939), 465-9. Details
- Stiles, W., 'Alfred James Ewart 1872-1937', Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1939 (1939), 465-9. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q614703. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/60591740. Details
- 'Ewart, Alfred J (1872-1937)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-632613. Details
See also
- 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 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
- Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - I', Victorian naturalist, 66 (5) (1949), 83-9. Details
- Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details
Digital resources
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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