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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001321b.htm person Lewis Fred AACR2 4 July 1882 7 August 1956 Place of Birth Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Malvern, Victoria, Australia Conservationist Naturalist Fred Lewis worked as clerk with the Victorian Public Service for around twenty-four years before being appointed Head and Chief Inspector of the Department of Agriculture (1924). He was an avid naturalist with a keen sense of conservation. Lewis helped re-establish the near-extinct koala population in Victoria and helped save the fate of local seal populations by proving they were not a threat to the fishing industry. He travelled all over the State conducting field work and wrote numerous articles for the press and natural history journals such as Emu. After retiring from the Victorian Public Service, Fred Lewis continued to pursue his natural history interests. He became President, then Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club and was a member of the management committee of the Sperm Whale Head National Park. 1900 1904 Career position - Clerk in the Office of the Public Service Board of the Victorian Public Service 1905 1913 Career position - Clerk with the ports and harbours branch of the Department of Public Works 1910 1910 Career position - Established a reserve on Quail Island to re-establish the koala population in Victoria 1913 1924 Career position - Supervising Clerk and occasional Acting Chief Inspector of the fisheries and game branch of the Department of Agriculture 1920s 1920s Career position - Saved mutton-bird rookeries at Cape Woolamai by revegetating the area 1924 1947 Career position - Chief Inspector and Head of Fisheries and Game in the Department of Agriculture 1947 Career position - Member of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club 1947 1947 Life event - Retired 1949 c. 1951 Career position - Vice-President of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club 1951 1955 Career position - Honorary Secretary, Victorian Field Naturalists' Club

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 'Lewis, Fred', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lewis, Fred Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Lewis, Fred (1882-1956), public servant, conservationist and naturalist Smith, Ann G. Lewis, Fred (1882-1956), public servant, conservationist and naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 92