Person
Brown, John Ednie (1848 - 1899)
FLS FRGS FRHortS
- Born
- 1848
Scotland - Died
- 26 October 1899
Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Forester
Summary
John Brown worked for government forestry institutions in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. In 1882 his book Forest Flora of South Australia was published. Botanical illustrator Rosa Fiveash worked with lithographer H. Barrett to illustrate this work (1882-1890).
Details
Born Scotland, 1848. Died Cottesloe, Perth, 26 October 1899. Nursery and forest management with his father 1864-66; assistant agent and forester, Invercauld estate, Aberdeenshire; laid out plantations and managed estates, Yorkshire and Sussex; United States and Canada 1871-72; conservator of forests, South Australia 1878-90; director-general of forests in New South Wales 1890-94; examination of forests in Western Australia for the Bureau of Agriculture 1895; conservator, Department of Woods and Forests, Western Australia 1896-99.
Chronology
- 1864 - 1866
- Career position - Nursery and Forest management, apprenticed to his father's forestry business, Scotland and England
- 1866 - 1871
- Career position - Assitant Agent, Forester, and Estate Manager, United Kingdom
- 1871 - 1872
- Career position - Forester, United States of America and Canada
- 1878 - 1882
- Career position - Conservator of Forests, South Australian Forests Board
- 1883
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus leucoxylon var. pauperita J.E.Br.
- 1883
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus leucoxylon var. macrocarpa J.E.Br.
- 1883 - 1890
- Career position - Conservator of Forests, South Australian Woods and Forests Department
- 1890
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lansdowneana F.Muell. & J.E.Br.
- 1890 - 1894
- Career position - Director-General of Forests, New South Wales Forest Conservancy Branch
- 1895
- Career position - Examiner of Forests, Western Australian Bureau of Agriculture
- 1896 - c. 1899
- Career position - Conservator, Western Australian Wood and Forests Department
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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
- Brown, John Ednie, The forest flora of South Australia (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1882), 94 pp. http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn2282454. Details
Book Sections
- Refshauge, Richard, 'Brown, John Ednie (1848-1899), sylviculturist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 3 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 261-262. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030241b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15925279. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/53300847. Details
- 'Brown, J E (1848-18991026)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-620753. 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
- Maiden, J. H., 'A century of botanical endeavour in South Australia', Report of the eleventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 11 (1908), 158-199, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14539732. Details
McCarthy, G.J., Moje, C.R. & Walsh, N.G.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 June 2022
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