Person

Burgess, Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorne (1907 - 1987)

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Born
1907
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Died
1987
Occupation
Botanical collector, Botanist and Minister of religion

Summary

A Church of England curate at Parramatta, Colin Burgess was later stationed in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. During this time he collected and got to know the flora of the area very well. He held a position as a botanist with the Canberra Botanic Gardens (later named Australian National Botanic Gardens) in his later years. In 1963 he published his book Blue Mountain Gums, one of the best local hand-books for the amateur botanist at the time and yet technically of a high standard. He also collected elsewhere in New South Wales and in the Australian Capital Territory.

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Chronology

1972
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus burgessiana L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell was named for Burgess

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Books

  • Burgess, Colin, Blue Mountain gums: a guide to the Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with a note on the Angophoras (Sydney: Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, 1963), 68 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Fagg, Murray, 'Burgess, Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorne (Rev. ) (1907 - 1987)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/burgess-colin.html. Details
  • 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

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