Person
Milligan, Joseph (1807 - 1884)
- Born
- 1807
Dumfriesshire, Scotland - Died
- 1884
London, England - Occupation
- Naturalist and Surgeon
Summary
Jospeh Milligan was surgeon to the Van Diemen's Land Company 1829-1842 and then held various government positions including that of medical officer and superintendent of aborigines. He was a founder of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Books
- Buchanan, A. M., The Tasmanian Collecting Localities of Ronald Gunn and Joseph Milligan (Hobart: Tasmanian Herbarium, 1988), 56 pp. Details
- Burns, T. E.; and Skemp, J. R., Van Diemen's Land correspondents: letters from R. C. Gunn, R. W. Lawrence, Jorgen Jorgenson, Sir John Franklin and others to Sir William Hooker, 1827 - 1849 (Launceston: Queen Victoria Museum, 1961), 142 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Hoddinott, W. G., 'Milligan, Joseph (1807-1884)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 2 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 230-231. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020199b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24088012. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92264069. Details
- 'Milligan, Joseph (1807-1884)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-509904. Details
See also
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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