Person
Black, Raleigh Adelbert (1880 - 1963)
- Born
- 11 March 1880
Scotland - Died
- 2 July 1963
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical collector
Summary
Raleigh Adelbert Black worked for the Tasmanian Council of Agriculture and though it was not his professional occupation, was an avid collector of plants. During his lifetime his personal herbarium grew to contain over 15000 specimens. In 1957 he transferred his collection to the National Herbarium in Melbourne.
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Chronology
- 1901 - c. 1927
- Career position - Employed by the Tasmanian Council of Agriculture
- 1944
- Taxonomy event - Collected the type of and described Eucalyptus x radiodives R.A. Black
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7286889. Details
- 'Black, Raleigh Adelbert (18800311-19630702)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1513086. 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
Rebecca Rigby and Neville Walsh
Created: 28 June 2012, Last modified: 9 April 2014
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