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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Moje, C. updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000147b.htm person Ross Andrew Hendry AACR2 1 August 1829 29 January 1910 Place of Birth Carbello, Ayrshire, Scotland Place of Death Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia Physician Botanist Chemical analyst Andrew Ross, a politician from Molong, New South Wales, also acted as district coroner, government medical adviser, medical officer and public vaccinator. He contributed to Ferdinand von Mueller's Eucalyptographia (1879-1884) on the medicinal value of eucalyptus foliage.

Born Carbello, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1829. Died Surry Hills, 29 January 1910. Educated University of Glasgow (MD, ChM 1852). Practice, Muirkirk and London, assistant medical officer, West London, assistant sanitary inspector, City of London, assistant surgeon, 68th Cambridgeshire Militia, arrived Sydney 1857 as medical officer of an immigrant ship, practice in Molong, registrar for births, deaths and marriages from 1857, coroner, government medical adviser, medical officer and public vaccinator for much of the 1860s and 1870s, Member for Molong in the Legislative Assembly 1880-1904, founded the Molong Argus 1893, but soon sold it. Contributed many articles to the New South Wales Medical Gazette, and his 1882 paper, "On the Influence of the Australian Climates and Pastures upon the growth of Wool" won a prize of £25 from the Royal Society of New South Wales.

1888 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

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 'Ross, Andrew Hendry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Ross, Andrew Hendry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Ross, Andrew Hendry (1829-1910), medical practitioner and politician Rutledge, Martha Ross, Andrew Hendry (1829-1910), medical practitioner and politician Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1976 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z Bede Nairn 59-60 Book: Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] Melbourne John Ferres, Government Printer 1879-1884 Andrew Ross - Records State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room Andrew Ross - Records Colonial secretary, in-letters (lack details). Andrew Ross - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Andrew Ross - Records MS 266 1872 - 1904 Notes of speeches and meetings in connection with the movement for Federation and related press notices, together with newspaper cuttings on other aspects of politics in New South Wales. Andrew Ross - Records Molong Historical Society Inc. Andrew Ross - Records Letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings, doctors and surgeons degrees (Glasgow), testimonials - approx. 50 items. H. Parkes - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales H. Parkes - Records A925 H. Parkes letters. Includes correspondence with Andrew Ross, John Stewart, Alfred Roberts, John Smith, Charles Alfred Topp, Ferdinand Mueller, William Woolls and Edmond Marin la Meslee. Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer (1843), Yellow Box Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer (1843), Yellow Box 23 January 2013 Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer (1843), Yellow Box Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer (1843), Yellow Box 23 January 2013 Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith

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