Person
Fuller, Claude W. (1872 - 1928)
Claude W. Fuller
Details
- Born
- 1 October 1872
Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 5 November 1928
Lourenco Marque, Mozambique - Occupation
- Entomologist
Summary
Claude Fuller was an Australian entomologist who was first employed as a vegetable pathologist with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture (c.1890). He then moved to the Western Australian Department of Agriculture (c.1896-1897). Next Fuller went to South Africa where he was involved in efforts to eradicate the tsetse fly and also wrote a report on Mealie Variegation. He worked as an assistant entomologist with the Cape Colony Department of Agriculture from 1897-1899, was Government Entomologist for Natal in 1899, and Assistant Chief, Division of Entomology for the Union of South Africa from 1910-1926. After retiring from this post he worked as an entomologist in Portuguese East Africa and died in a car accident in 1928.
Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5128845. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/289062000. Details
- 'Fuller, Claude W. (18721001-19281105)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477240. Details
Digital resources
McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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