Person

Paradice, William Edward John (1897 - 1927)

Born
21 February 1897
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Died
3 November 1927
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Marine zoologist, Physician and Entomologist

Summary

William Paradice graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1920. The following year he joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant. His main sea posting was to H.M.A.S. Geranium from 1923 during her cruise through Queensland and Northern Territory waters. In 1926 he was promoted Surgeon Lt Commander, posted to Garden Island in Sydney Harbour. Paradice made the most of his free time to study marine zoology, particularly fish and echinoderms. He had a fruitful association with the Australian Museum, frequently donating insects and other specimens including those collected during his posting to Geranium. In 1926 he made a hydrographic survey of the Gunnamatta mudflats at Port Hacking with the museum's entomologist, Anthony Musgrave. Paradice was a member of several local scientific societies, serving on the council of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and as President of the Microscopical Society of New South Wales. Among his publications were papers on corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory fishes, and a description of an new genus of sea snake.

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Chronology

July 1918
Career event - Joined the Australian Imperial Force
1920
Education - MB ChM, University of Sydney
1921 - 1926
Career position - Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy
1926 - 1927
Career position - Surgeon Lt Commander, Royal Australian Navy

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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

Journal Articles

  • Whitley, G. P., 'The late W. E. J. Paradice and the Australian Museum', Australian Museum magazine, 3 (5) (1928), 169-70. Details

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See also

  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details

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