Biographical entry Veitch, Robert (1890 - 1972)

Summary

Robert Veitch was an instigator and inaugural Director of the Division of Plant Industry (research) in the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock. He was also President of the Entomological Society of Queensland (1932), President of the Royal Society of Queensland (1935-1936) and founding Vice-President (1935), and president (1936), of the Queensland branch of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science.

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Events

1911

Education - Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) completed at the University of Edinburgh

1912

Education - Bachelor of Science in Forestry (BScFor) completed at the University of Edinburgh

1913 - 1914

Life event - Worked at the British Museum's Imperial Institute of Entomology

1914 - 1925?

Life event - Worked in field studies as an Entomologist for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd. in Suva, Fiji

1914 - 1960

Career position - Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London

1917 - ?

Career position - Fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

1925 - 1936?

Career position - Chief Entomologist at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock

1932

Life event - New species of 'moss bug', Hemiodoecus veitchi (Hackeriella veitchi) named after him

1932

Career position - President of the Entomological Society of Queensland

1935

Career position - Founding Vice-President of the Queensland branch of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science

1935 - 1936

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Queensland

1936

Career position - President of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, Queensland branch

1936 - 1956

Career position - Director of the Division of Plant Industries (Research) at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock

1956

Life event - Retired

1958 - 1960

Career position - Consultant in the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock (part-time)

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Gill, J.C.H.; Lloyd, Peter L., 'Veitch, Robert (1890-1972), Entomologist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 446-447. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160537b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Robert Veitch, 1890-1972', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, vol. 39, no. 1, 1973, p. 66. Details
• Veitch, R., 'History of Entomology in Queensland', Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (Queensland Branch), vol. 1, 1962, pp. 5-15. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Veitch, Robert', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624346. Details