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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-02-18 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000188b.htm VA 618 corporateBody Victorian Department of Agriculture Colony and State of Victoria AACR2 1872 1985 Start Place Victoria, Australia Advisory or Regulatory Body Agricultural Industry Established in 1872, the Victorian Department of Agriculture was a branch of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey. The Department was mainly concerned with the control of stock disease. It gained its independence as a Department in 1890. In 1985 the Department changed its name to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. French, Charles Hamilton (1868 - 1950)

Government Entomologist 1911 - 1931; Government Biologist 1931 - 1933

 Cherry, Thomas (1861 - 1945)

Director of Agriculture 1905 - 1910

 Tindale, George Barrand (1903 - 1977)

Research Officer 1926 - 1956; Leader of the post-harvest section, Horticultural Research Station 1956 - 1968

 Skene, J.K.M. (Ken) (1907 - 1981)

Science Field Officer (later Deputy Chief Chemist) 1928 - 1972

 Penman, Frank (1905 - 1973)

Research Chemist 1927 - 1948; Deputy Chief Chemist 1948 - 1950

 Johnstone, Robert Nairn (1884 - 1935)

Veterinary Officer (later Superintendent of Livestock and Chief Veterinary Inspector) 1910 - 1935

 Brittlebank, Charles Clifton (1862 - 1945)

Government Plant Pathologist 1913 - 1924; Biologist-in-Charge, Science Branch 1924 - 1928

 Stubbs, Lionel Leslie (1916 - 2003)

Assistant Entomologist (later Principal Plant Pathologist), Plant Research Institute, Burnley 1939 - 1969

 French, Charles (1842 - 1933)

Government Entomologist 1889 - 1908

 Forster, Howard Carlyle (1903 - 1981)

Research Officer 1926 - 1945

 Raw, Alan Rayson (1902 - 1964)

Research scientist 1927 - 1964

 Wishart, David Sutcliffe (1916 - 2013)

Director (later Director General), 1968-1979

 Salisbury, Ralph (1938 - 2017)

Principal Veterinary Officer 1974 - 1991

 Kendall, Ernest Arthur (1876 - 1938)

Chief Veterinary Officer 1926 - 1938

 Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin (Dick) (1905 - 1986)

Government Entomologist 1935 - 1944

 Watson, Rodger Henry (1910 - 1999)

Chief of the Division of Animal Industry c.1969 - 1977

 McAlpine, Daniel (1849 - 1932) 1890 1910

Daniel McAlpine was a Vegetable Pathologist with the Victorian Department of Agriculture from 1890 until 1910.

 Pescott, Edward Edgar (1872 - 1954) 1917 1937

Edward Pescott was a Government Pomologist with the Victorian Government Department of Agriculture from 1917 until 1937.

 Victorian Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, State of Victoria (1985 - 1991) State of Victoria (1901 - )

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 'Victorian Department of Agriculture', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Victorian Department of Agriculture Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Report: The work of the Division of Economic Botany for the year 1928-29 Dickson, B.T. The work of the Division of Economic Botany for the year 1928-29 Melbourne Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia) 1929 Book Section: 3.2.1 Department of Agriculture 1872-1985 Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs 1985+ Public Record Office of Victoria 3.2.1 Department of Agriculture 1872-1985 Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs 1985+ 1985 List of Holdings 1985: Public Record Office Resource Section: VA 618 Department of Agriculture 1872-1985 VA 618 Department of Agriculture 1872-1985 Public Record Office Victoria 2002 Public Record Office Victoria online catalogue Book: Reminiscences from the inside: bringing science to agriculture, a history of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, 1946-1996 Russell, Hamish, Bardsley, Barrie and Lawson, Robin Reminiscences from the inside: bringing science to agriculture, a history of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, 1946-1996 Melbourne the Authors 2014 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000