Person

Collie, Alexander (1793 - 1835)

Born
2 June 1793
Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died
8 November 1835
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector, Physician and Explorer

Summary

Alexander Collie was a general practitioner who worked as a ship's surgeon in the British Admiralty and went as a naturalist on Colonel Beechey's voyage to North America, before coming to Australia where he was the Colonial Surgeon for Perth from 1832-1835. He was also a keen botanist and collected plants in California, Chile and Australia. His collecting expeditions took in the Swan River, Leeuwins Land, north of King Georges Sound, Cockburn Sound to Geographe Bay and from Albany to French River. His plant specimens were sent to the Herbarium at Kew Botanical Gardens, London.

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Chronology

1867
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus loxophleba Benth. Collie collected a syntype

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Alexander Collie - Records, 1828 - 1835; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Journals of several expeditions made in Western Australia, during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832, under the sanction of the governor, Sir James Stirling, containing the latest authentic information relative to that country, accompanied by a map (Nedlands, W. A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1980), 263 pp. Details
  • Chessell, Gwen, Alexander Collie, Colonial Surgeon, Naturalist and Explorer (Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 2008), 224 pp. Details

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Conference Papers

  • Adams, A. R., 'Dr Alexander Collie - Colonial Surgeon and Administrator', in Australian Society of the History of Medicine, The Impact of the Past on the Present: Second National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine edited by Peter Winterton and Des Gurry (Perth: Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1991), pp. 244-247.. Details

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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

McCarthy, G.J.

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