Carr, Denis John (1915 - 2008)

Summary

Denis Carr was a professor in the Department of Developmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University from 1968. He and his wife Maisie were noted for their work in the Alpine regions of New South Wales and Victoria. Dennis and Maisie Carr named many eucalypts, particularly bloodwoods (Corymbia) species, including the Corymbia dampieri in 1987. Their species concept was very fine and many of their species have subsequently been incorporated into others. Nonetheless, many have withstood scrutiny and are still accepted. Denis Carr obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Manchester in the UK.

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Chronology

1958 - 1960

Career position - Reader of Botany, University of Melbourne

1960 - 1967

Career position - Professor of Botany, Queen's University in Belfast

1968 - 1980

Career position - Professor of Developmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University in Canberra

1970

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus roycei S.G.M.Carr, D.J.Carr & A. S. George.

1980

Life event - Retired

2008

Life event - Interred Gungahlin Cemetery

Related entries

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

• Carr, Denis J., Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage (Canberra: British Museum (Natural History) in association with Australian National University Press, 1983), 300 pp. Details
• Carr, Denis John; and Carr, Stella Grace Maisie, Eucalyptus II. The rubber cuticle and other studies of the Corymbosae (Canberra: Phytoglyph Press, 1987), 372 pp. Details
• Gunning, Brian; Jahnke, Roland; Manifold, Marion; and Wellington, Bruce, First know the nature of things: celebrating the life and work of Denis John Carr (1915 - 2008): botanist, scholar, mentor (Canberra: Phytoglyph Press, 2021), 390 pp. Details
• Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Carr, D. J., 'The Contribution of Women to Australian Botany' in People and Plants in Australia, D. J. Carr and S. G. M. Carr, eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), p. 416. Details
• Carr, D. J.; and Carr, S. G. M., 'The botany of the first Australians' in People and Plants in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 33-44. Details
• Carr, D. J.; and Carr, S. G. M., 'Karl Goebel in Australia and New Zealand' in People and Plants in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 167-79. Details
• Carr, S. G. M.; and Carr, D. J., 'A charmed life: the collections of Labillardiere' in People and plants in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 79-115. Details
• Dield, L (translated by D. J. Carr), 'Extra Tropical Western Australia' in People and Plants in Australia, D. J. Carr abd S. G. M. Carr, ed. (Sydney: Academic Press, 1980). Details
• Edwards, Phyllis, 'Botany of the Flinders voyage' in Plants and man in Australia, Carr, D. J.; and Carr S. G.M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 139-66. Details

Edited Books

• Carr, D. J. ed., A Book for Maisie: Celebrating the Life and Work of S. G. M. Carr, née Fawcett, Pioneer Australian Alpine Ecologist, 1912-88 (Canberra: 2005), 356 pp. Details
• Carr, D. J.; Carr, S. G. M. ed., Plants and Man in Australia (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981). Details
• Carr, D. J.; Carr, S.G.M. ed., People and Plants in Australia (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981). Details

Journal Articles

• Carr, D. J., 'Obituary: Stella Grace Carr (1912-88)', Australasian Systematic Botany Newsletter, 58 (1989), 21-27. Details
• Carr, S. G.; and Carr, D., 'Oil glands and ducts in Eucalyptus L'Herit. I. The phloem and the pith.', Australian Journal of Botany, 17 (3) (1969), 471-513. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/70063576. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5086693. Details
• 'Carr, D J (1915-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616210. Details

See also

• 'See the list of Eucalyptus species published under this authority using author abbreviation search '%D.J.Carr%' (include wildcards) and genus 'Eucalyptus'', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni. Details
• Ashton, D. H.; Ducker, S. C., 'John Stewart Turner 1908-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (3) (1993), 278-290. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9930930278. Details
• 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