Person
Blackburne, James (1839 - 1927)
- Born
- 25 January 1839
- Died
- 1927
- Occupation
- Botanical collector and Forester
Summary
James Blackburne was a collector of botanical specimens including Acacia and the type of Eucalyptus obliqua var. x pilula (Blakely 1934). He worked as an inspector with the Victorian State Forest Service from 1889 to 1903.
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Chronology
- 1922
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus x blackburniana Maiden was named in his honour
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Collector of Eucalyptus obliqua L'Herit. var. pilule Blakely
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
- Taylor, Angela, A forester's log : the story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest, 1882-1897 (Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1998), 224 pp. Blackburne, James (forester) pp. 130, 144, 163. Details
Newspaper Articles
- 'Late Country News', The Ballarat Star (1923), 6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213851343. Details
Reports
- Blackburne, James; Dudley, Henry; Forrest, David C.; Johnson, William Henry; Kenney, James, and Wallis, A.R., Redgum : report of the Secretary for Agriculture on the redgum forests of Gunbower and Barmah (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1878). http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1878No50.pdf. Details
Resources
- 'Blackburne, James (18390125-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508876. 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
Rebecca Rigby, Peter Fagg & Neville Walsh
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