Blake, Stanley Thatcher (1911 - 1973)

Summary

Stanley Blake worked for the Queensland Herbarium from 1945 until his death. Before joining the Herbarium he received Walter and Eliza Hall fellowship which allowed him to undertake botanical collecting expeditions to Western Queensland (1935 - 1937). He also carried out a special survey of potential rubber-producing plants in Queensland in 1939. Blake specialised in the taxonomy of tropical and subtropical grasses and Cyperaceae, Eucalyptus Idiospermaceae, Plectranthus and Melaleuca. He named one of the non-Australian eucalypts, Eucalyptus urophylla, which grows in Indonesia. Blake published extensively in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland and was a major contributor to the Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium. He was President of both the Royal Society of Queensland and the Queensland Naturalists' Club, and a life member of the National Parks Association. The Queensland Herbarium holds over 17,000 of his specimens.

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Chronology

1932

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Queensland

1934

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Queensland

1935 - 1937

Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow gathering material for a comprehensive account of the plant communities of Western Queensland

1939

Career position - Special survey of potential rubber-producing plants in Queensland

1941

Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club

1942 - 1951

Career position - Editor, Queensland naturalist

1945 - 1973

Career position - Botanist (later Senior Botanist), Queensland Herbarium

1946 - 1947

Career position - Botanist, CSIRO Northern Australia Regional Survey

1953

Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland

1953

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus porrecta S. T. Blake

1956

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Queensland

1958

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus panda S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1958) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 69: 87

March 1964 - May 1965

Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew, England

1977

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus melanoleuca S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 6

1977

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus urophylla S.T.Blake (Indonesia) Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 7-9)

1977

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus henryi S.T.Blake (= Corymbia henryi (S.T.Blake) K.D.Hill & L.A.S. Johnson

1977

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus brassiana S.T.Blake. Blake, S.T., (1977) Four new species of Eucalyptus. Austrobaileya 1(1): 1, fig. 1

Related entries

Archival resources

Queensland Herbarium

• Stanley T. Blake - Records, 1944 - 1974; Queensland Herbarium. 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

• Blake, S. T.; and Roff, C., The honey flora of south-eastern Queensland (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1958), 199 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Blake, S. T., 'Cyril Tenison White, 1890-1950', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 62 (1952), 35-48. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'Some Pioneers in Plant Exploration Classification', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Queensland, lxvi (1) (1954), 1-19. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Melaleuca leucadendron and its allies', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 1 (1968), 1-114. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'Studies in Cyperaceae', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 8 (1969), 1-48. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Carpobrotus and Sarcozona in Australia, genera allied to Mesembryanthemum', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 7 (1969), 1-65. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'A revision of Plectranthus (Labiatae) in Australasia', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 9 (1972), 1-120. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'Revision of the genera of Cymbopogon and Schizachyrium (Gramineae)', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 17 (1974), 1-70. Details
• Blake, S. T., 'Allosyncarpia ternata, a new genus and species of the Myrtaceae subfamily Leptospermoideae from Northern Australia', Austrobaileya, 1 (1) (1977), 43-46. Details
• Blake, S.T., 'Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey: 1. Studies on Northern Australian species of Eucalyptus.', Australian Journal of Botany, 1 (2) (1953), 185-352. Details
• Blke, S. T., 'Neurachne and its allies (Gramineae)', Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, 13 (1975), 1-53. Details
• Everist, S. L., 'Stanley Thatcher Blake - botanist extraordinaire 1911 - 1973', Queensland naturalist, 21 (1/2) (1974), 31-2. Details
• Gillam, Claire and Blake, S. T., 'The collections of Queensland mosses in the Queensland Herbarium', Australasian herbarium news, 14 (1954), 4-7. Details
• Pedley, L., 'Stanley Thatcher Blake', Queensland naturalist, 44 (1/3) (2006), 17. Details
• Smith, L. S.; Holland, M.; Marks, E. N.; and Blake, S. T., 'Index to the Queensland naturalist, vols 1 -15', Queensland naturalist, 15 (4/6) (1956), 86-117. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2984580. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/304022808. Details
• 'Blake, S T (1911-1973)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458696. Details

See also

• 'See the list of eucalypts published under this authority using abbreviation search % 'S.T.Blake %' (include wildcards) and family 'Myrtaceae'', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apx?taxon_id=73716. Details
• Fagg, Murray, 'Blake, Stanley Thatcher (1911 - 1973)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/blake-stanley.html. Details