Person
Fletcher, Joseph James (1850 - 1926)
- Born
- 1850
Auckland, New Zealand - Died
- 15 May 1926
Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Zoologist and Botanist
Summary
Joseph Fletcher was the director of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1893-1919. He had joined the Society in 1881, its council in 1883, became librarian in 1886 and was president 1919-1921. Earlier he had taught science at Newington College, Sydney.
Details
Chronology
- 1886 - 1919
- Career position - Secretary of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1902
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus apiculata R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm. Fletcher was joint collector of syntype
- 1920 - 1921
- Career position - President of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1921 - 1924
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Adolph Basser Library Pictorial Collection, MS 056; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- J. D. Cox - Records, 1898 - 1906, B1174; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Linnean Society of New South Wales - Records, 1826 - 1970, ML MSS 2009; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
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
Book Sections
- Walsh, G. P., 'Fletcher, Joseph James (1850?-1926)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 525-526. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080548b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- Fletcher, J.J. ed., The Macleay Memorial Volume (Sydney: 1893). Details
Journal Articles
- 'Joseph James Fletcher, 1850-1926', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales Memorial Series No. 2, 52, 54 (1927). Details
- Fletcher, J.J., 'On the Rise and Early Progress of our Knowledge of the Australian Fauna', Report of the eighth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 8 (1901), 69-104, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14536713. Details
- Fletcher, J.J., 'The Society's Heritage from the Macleays', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 45 (1920), 592-629. Details
- Fletcher, J.J., 'The Society's Heritage From the Macleays. Part ii', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, liv (1929), 185-272. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6284326. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92021133. Details
- 'Fletcher, Joseph James (1850-1926)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470736. 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
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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