Person
Perrin, George Samuel
- Born
- England
- Occupation
- Forester
Summary
George Perrin accepted the position of Conservator of Forests in Tasmania in 1885 and in 1888 was appointed to the new post of Conservator of Forests in Victoria. He had worked as a ranger in charge of the Mt Burr Forest Reserve in South Australia from 1880 before moving to Tasmania.
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Chronology
- 1880 - 1885
- Career position - Forester, Woods and Forests Department of South Australia
- 1885 - 1886
- Career position - Chief Forester at Wirrabara, Woods and Forests Department of South Australia
- 1886 - 1887
- Career position - Conservator of Forests, Tasmania
- 1888 - 1900?
- Career position - Conservator of Forests, Victoria
- 1894
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus perriniana F.Muell. ex Rodway was named in Perrin's honour
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
- Johnson, Dick, The alps at the crossroads : the quest for an alpine national park in Victoria (Melbourne: Victorian National Parks Association, 1974), 207 pp. 'George Perrin' p.67. Details
Resources
- 'Perrin, George Samuel (1847-19001224)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475464. Details
See also
- 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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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