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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J., Moje, C.R. & Walsh, N. updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000966b.htm person Black John McConnell MBE AACR2 28 April 1855 2 December 1951 Place of Birth Wigtown, Scotland Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Botanist Botanical collector John Black was a journalist and botanist who migrated to South Australia with his family in 1877. Before that he worked in the British Linen Co. Bank, Edinburgh, and the Oriental Bank, London. On arriving in South Australia he set up as a wheat farmer at Baroota in the Port Pirie district; this proved a thankless task. From 1882 Black was a journalist and reporter for newspapers in Adelaide and a sometime Hansard reporter for the South Australian parliament. A legacy, following the death of his mother, allowed Black to resign his career as a journalist and concentrate of botany. In 1909 he published The naturalised flora of South Australia, many of the 368 species illustrated with his own drawings. A series of additions was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia up to 1949. In 1920, at the request of the South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild, Black began to prepare what became the 4-volume Flora of South Australia, published between 1922 and 1929. These were the first in a long series of works issued as the Handbooks of the flora and fauna of South Australia. A skilled linguist, he became interested in Aboriginal languages, his investigations resulting in the publication of three papers between 1915 and 1920. Black was an active member of the Royal Society of South Australia, serving as President of both the Society and its Field naturalists' Section. Black's botanical specimens, formerly in the herbarium of the Department of Botany at the University of Adelaide, are now in the State Hernbarium of South Australia. 1877 1877 Life event - Migrated to South Australia 1878 1882 Career event - Wheat farmer, Baroota, South Australia 1882 1884 Career position - Journalist, South Australian register, Adelaide 1884 1902 Career position - Journalist (later senior reporter), The advertiser, Adelaide 1884 1929 Career position - Sessional Hansard reporter, South Australian parliament 1906 1906 Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia 1907 1945 Career position - Member, Royal Society of South Australia 1926 1926 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus incrassata var. protrusa J.M.Black 1926 1926 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus viminalis var. diversifolia J.M.Black [synonym] 1926 1926 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus baxteri var. pedicella J.M.Black [synonym] 1927 1927 Career position - Honorary lecturer in systematic botany, University of Adelaide 1927 1931 Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of South Australia 1930 1930 Career position - Delegate, International Botanical Congress, Cambridge, United Kingdom 1930 1930 Award - Associate honoris causa, Linnean Society, London 1930 1930 Award - Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia 1932 1932 Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1933 1934 Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia 1934 1934 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus obliqua L'Herit. var. megacarpa Blakely. Black was joint collector of the type. 1942 1942 Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 1942 1942 Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia 1944 1944 Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalist Club of Victoria 1945 1951 Award - Honorary fellow, Royal Society of South Australia 1946 1946 Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia (1928 - )

Awarded the Medal 1930

 Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1904 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal 1932

 Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales (1878 - )

Awarded the Medal 1946

 Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1940 - )

Awarded the Medallion 1944

 Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

President 1933 - 1934 and 1942; ; Honorary Life Member 1945 - 1951

 Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland (1906 - 1922)

President 1906

 State Herbarium of South Australia (1954 - )

Black's plant collections are in the Herbarium

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 Black, J M (18550428-19511202)

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 'Black, John McConnell', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Black, John McConnell Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Memoirs of John McConnell Black Black, John McConnell Memoirs of John McConnell Black [Adelaide] [Hyde Park Press] 1971 Journal Article: One Hundred Years of Systematic Botany in South Australia. Black, J. M. One Hundred Years of Systematic Botany in South Australia. 1936 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia lx xxxi-xxxiv Book Section: Black, John McConnell (1855-1951), botanist Robertson, Enid Black, John McConnell (1855-1951), botanist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 304-305 Journal Article: Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks, September and October 1916 Waite, Edgar R. [and others] Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks, September and October 1916 1917 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 41 405-665 Edited Book: The diaries of John McConnell Black Andrew, Marjorie; and Clissold, Shirley The diaries of John McConnell Black Hawthorndene, S.A. Investigator Press 1998-2003 Journal Article: Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks: September and October 1916 (b): botany Black, J. M. Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks: September and October 1916 (b): botany 1917 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 41 631-53 Journal Article: Vocabularies of four South Australian languages - Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata and Narrinyeri - with special reference to their speech sounds Black, J. M. Vocabularies of four South Australian languages - Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata and Narrinyeri - with special reference to their speech sounds 1920 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 44 76-93 Book: Flora of South Australia. Black, J. M. Flora of South Australia. Adelaide British Science Guild, South Australian Branch 1922-1929 Book: The naturalised flora of South Australia Black, J. M. The naturalised flora of South Australia Adelaide J. M. Black 1909 Book: Supplement to J.M. Black's Flora of South Australia (second edition, 1943-1957) Eichler, Hansjorg Supplement to J.M. Black's Flora of South Australia (second edition, 1943-1957) Adelaide British Science Guild, South Australian Branch 1965 Journal Article: John McConnell Black, M.B.E., A.L.S. Eardley, C. M. John McConnell Black, M.B.E., A.L.S. 1952 Australasian herbarium news 10 1-5 Book Section: Botany Robertson, E. L. Botany Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 101-49 Book: 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 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

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 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010 Resource: Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Australian National Botanic Gardens 2012 John McConnell Black - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana John McConnell Black - Records PRG 346 1887 - 1957 Personal records comprising diaries, notes on botany, cash books and an incomplete manuscript relating to the "Flora of South Australia"; overall dates 1887-1957 [Partly restricted, PRG 346]. John McConnell Black - Records Private hands (Andrew, M.W.) John McConnell Black - Records 1855 - 1951 Family papers c1855-1951.