Biographical entry Stoate, Theodore Norman (1895 - 1979)

Summary

Theodore Norman Stoate and Kessell (qv) of the Western Australian Forests Department studied the nutrition requirements of pine in the 1920s and showed that poor sites benefited from the addition of phosphorus and zinc.

Details

Graduate of the Adelaide Forestry School 1918; post-graduate Diploma of Forestry, Oxford 1931. New South Wales Forestry Commission; Assistant Working Plans Officer, Western Australian Forests Department 1922-27, Assistant Conservator 1927-46, Conservator from 1946. First winner of W.R. Grimwade scholarship to University of Oxford 1930.

Published resources

Book Sections

• Mills, Jenny, 'Stoate, Theodore Norman (1895-1979), Forester', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 313-314. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160382b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Stoate, Theodore Norman', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466852. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003972. Details
• Stephens, C.G. and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 3, 1988, pp. 299-313. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9880730299.htm. Details