Person
Péron, François (1775 - 1810)
- Born
- 22 August 1775
Cérilly, Allier, France - Died
- 14 December 1810
Cérilly, Allier, France - Occupation
- Naturalist and Explorer
Summary
François Péron was appointed natural historian and anthropologist to Baudin's expedition to the South Seas 1800-1804. His work included hydrographic surveys, regular meteorological observations, the collection of zoological specimens and anthropological tests.
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1800 - 1804, ML MSS 760; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Books
- Duyker, Edward, François Pèron: an Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2006), 349 pp. Details
- Fornasiero, Jean; and West-Sooby, John, "Roaming freely throughout the universe": Nicholas Baudin's voyage to Australia and the pursuit of science (Mile End, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2021), 340 pp. Details
- MacFarlane, C. W.; and Triebel, L. A., French Explorers in Tasmania and the South Seas (Sydney: Australasian Publishing Co., 1937). Details
- Peron, Francois, Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands (Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2003). Details
- Plomley, Brian; Cornell, Christine; and Banks, Max, Francois Peron's natural history of Maria Island, Tasmania (Launceston, Tas.: Queen Victoria Museum, 1990), 50 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Hughes, Miranda, 'Tall Tales of True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802' in Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific, Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock, eds (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988), pp. 65-88. Details
- Hughes, Miranda J., 'Philosophical Travellers at the Ends of the Earth: Baudin, Peron and the Tasmanians' in Australian Science in the Making, R. W. Home, ed. (Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 23-44. Details
- Marchant, Leslie R.; Reynolds, J. H., 'Péron, Francois (1775-1810), naturalist, explorer and historian' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 2 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 323-324. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020288b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Andrews, E.C., 'The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, lxxvi (1942), 96-128. Details
- Konishi, Shino, 'The "brilliant shells" of Shark Bay: the emotions of shell-collecting', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 21-36. Details
- Mayer, Wolf, 'The Geological Work of the Baudin Expedition in Australia (1801-1803): the Mineralogists, the Discovery and the Legacy', Earth Sciences History, 28 (2009), 293-324. Details
- Pfennigwerth, S., '"The Mighty Cassowary": the Discovery and Demise of the King Island Emu', Archives of Natural History, 37 (2010), 74-90. Details
- Triebel, L.A., 'Peron in Tasmania', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1947), 63-68. Details
- Turtle, Alison M., 'Peron, Porteus, and the Pacific Islands Regiment: the Beginings of Cross-cultural Psychology in Australia', Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, 27 (1991), 7-20. Details
Resources
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/61550655. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q634556. Details
- 'Péron, François (1775-1810)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-945462. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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