Person

Grayson, Henry Joseph (1856 - 1918)

Born
9 May 1856
Worrall, Yorkshire, England
Died
21 March 1918
Clyde, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Nurseryman and Geologist

Summary

Henry Grayson worked as a nurseryman in New Zealand during the 1880s and for the nursery of Brunning & Sons after arriving in Victoria in 1887. His interest in botany and natural history led to has involvement in local scientific societies including the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and the Royal Society of Victoria. Grayson became widely acknowledged for his skill in preparing microscope slides of both biological and geological material, and for his invention and construction of apparatus for micro-ruling. Between 1898 and 1918 he was Laboratory Assistant successively in the Departments of Physiology, Geology and Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.

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Chronology

1887 - 1898
Career position - Nurseryman, Brunning and Sons, Melbourne
1898 - 1900
Career position - Laboratory assistant, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne
1900 - 1913
Career position - Laboratory assistant, Department of Geology, University of Melbourne
1901 - 1902
Career event - Accompanied F. T. Gregory on his expedition to Lake Eyre
1901 - 1918
Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
1902 - 1918
Career position - Associate Member, Royal Society of Victoria
1909 - 1918
Career position - Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
1913 - 1918
Career position - Laboratory Assistant, Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne
1917
Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Henry Joseph Grayson - Records, 1900 - 1918; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Bale, W. M., 'Obituary: H. J. Grayson', Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society (1919), 20-2. Details
  • Bolton, H. C., 'The Development of Ruling Engines in Melbourne, 1890-1940: a Link between Amateur and Professional Science', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870640493. Details
  • Bolton, H. C. and McNeill, J. J., 'H. J. Grayson: a pioneer ruler of diffraction gratings', Victorian historical journal, 52 (1) (1981), 63-6. Details
  • Grayson, H. J., 'Diatoms: notes on their collection, cleaning and mounting', Victorian naturalist, 9 (7) (1892), 102-11. Details
  • Grayson, H. J., 'Note on microscopical test rulings', Victorian naturalist, 11 (12) (1895), 163-4. Details
  • Grayson, H. J., 'Description of a new dividing engine for ruling diffraction gratings', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, ns, 30 (1) (1917), 44-95. Details
  • Holmes, W. M., 'Test rulings and diffraction gratings: some references to the work carried out by the late H. J. Grayson', Industrial australian and mining standard, 64 (8 July) (1929), 63-7. Details
  • McNeill, J. J., 'Diffraction Grating Ruling in Australia', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 18-38. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230018.htm. Details
  • Stone, W., 'Grayson's micro rulings', Journal of scientific instruments, 11 (1) (1934), 1-6. Details

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See also

  • Gold, Ergad; Greener, Rosalie (Ed) ed., Inventive Vics Exhibition (Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scientific Industry Association, 1985), 58 pp. Optical Ruling Engines. Details
  • Russell, K. F., 'William Stone (1858 - 1949): a pioneer in Australian radiology', Australasian radiology, 19 (3) (1975), 216-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1975.tb01950.x. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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