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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001064b.htm person Ewart Alfred James FRS AACR2 12 February 1872 12 September 1937 Place of Birth Toxeth Park, Lancashire, England Place of Death East Malvern, Victoria, Australia Botanist Plant physiologist Alfred Ewart was the first Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne 1906-1937 and until February 1921 was also the Victorian Government Botanist. Although trained in England, he published widely on Australian flora and travelled extensively throughout the country. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1920-1921. 1894 Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship 1898 1937 Career position - Fellow, Linnean Society, London 1900 1900 Publication - Book: First Stage Botany 1900 1906 Career event - Translated W. Pfeffer's three volume publication The Physiology of Plants 1902 1902 Publication - Textbook: The new matriculation botany, later published as Ewart's Elementary Botany 1903 1903 Publication - Book: On the Physics and Physiology of Protoplasmic Streaming in Plants, 1906 1921 Career position - Victorian Government Botanist 1906 1937 Career position - Chair of Botany, University of Melbourne 1908 1937 Career position - Chairman, Forestry Examination Board, Victoria 1909 1909 Publication - Book: The weeds, poison plants, and naturalized aliens of Victoria 1909 1910 Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1910 1910 Taxonomy event - Ewartia named by G. Beauverd in Ewart's honour 1914 1914 Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section K (Botany), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting 1917 1917 Publication - Book: The flora of the Northern Territory, co-authored with Olive B. Davies 1919 1919 Taxonomy event - J.H. Maiden named Eucalyptus ewartiana Maiden (1919) in Ewart's honour 1921 c. 1927 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Botany), Australian National Research Council 1925 1925 Publication - Book: Handbook of forest trees for Victorian foresters 1926 1926 Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1926 1926 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus gillenii Ewart & Kerr (1926) (Blakely states = Eucalyptus morrisii R. T. Bak 1927 1927 Career event - Elected Member (Botany and Forestry), Australian National Research Council 1930 1930 Publication - Book: Flora of Victoria Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

President 1920 - 1921

 The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc (1880 - )

President 1909 - 1910

 National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Government Botanist 1906 - 1921

 School of Botany, The University of Melbourne (1880s - )

Professor of Botany 1906 - 1937

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 - 1927 ?; Member (Botany and Forestry) 1927 -

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

President, Section M (Botany) 1926

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 84th Meeting (1914)

Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section K (Botany) 1914

 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Awards, Australia (1891 - )

1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship: 1894.

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 Ewart, Alfred J (1872-1937)

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 'Ewart, Alfred James', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Ewart, Alfred James Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Carey, Jane No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Penrith, New South Wales Australian Women's History Network 2001 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 10 153-172 Book Section: Ewart, Alfred James (1872-1937), botanist Chambers, T. C. Ewart, Alfred James (1872-1937), botanist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 448-450 Book: Recording census of the Victorian flora Ewart, A. Recording census of the Victorian flora Melbourne Victorian Department of Agriculture 1908 Journal Article: Alfred James Ewart 1872 - 1937 Stiles, W. Alfred James Ewart 1872 - 1937 1939 Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 7 465-9 Journal Article: Watch Dog Over the Herbarium: Alfred Ewart, Victorian Government Botanist, 1906-1921 Cohn, Helen M. Watch Dog Over the Herbarium: Alfred Ewart, Victorian Government Botanist, 1906-1921 2005 Historical Records of Australian Science 16 2 139-167 Journal Article: The University of Melbourne Herbarium, from McCoy to MELU: a broken paper-trail Gillbank, Linden The University of Melbourne Herbarium, from McCoy to MELU: a broken paper-trail 2007 University of Melbourne Collections 1 20-8 Journal Article: Alfred James Ewart 1872-1937 Stiles, W. Alfred James Ewart 1872-1937 1939 Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939 465-9 Book: From System Garden to Scientific Research: The University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its First Two Professors (1906-1973) Gillbank, Linden From System Garden to Scientific Research: The University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its First Two Professors (1906-1973) Parkville, Vic. School of Botany, University of Melbourne 2010 Book Section: Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920 Kelly, Farley Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920 Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 35-75 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Journal Article: Botanical pioneers in Victoria - I Willis, J. H. Botanical pioneers in Victoria - I 1949 Victorian naturalist 66 5 83-9 Book: Botanical Pioneers in Victoria Willis, J. H. Botanical Pioneers in Victoria [Melbourne] [Brown Prior Anderson] 1949 The Victorian naturalist 66 19 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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 Alfred James Ewart - Records Private hands (Chambers, T.C.) Alfred James Ewart - Records 1872 - 1937 Typescript of recollections of the Ewart family by Mrs E.M. Warwood, Birmingham. 1 item Ewart, Alfred James Portrait Ewart, Alfred James Portrait Royal Society of Victoria Presidential Portrait

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