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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J., Moje, C. & Walsh, N. updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001462b.htm person Hill Walter AACR2 31 December 1820 4 February 1904 Place of Birth Scotsdyke, Scotland Place of Death Eight Miles Plains, Queensland, Australia Botanist Horticulturist Explorer Botanic gardens director Walter Hill was the Queensland Colonial Botanist, and Curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens 1855-1881. Earlier, he collected for William S. Macleay. Hill introduced sugar cane and fruit trees to Queensland. Unable to establish a working herbarium due to time constraints and lack of suitable buildings, he sent most of his botanical specimens to William Hooker and later Joseph Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, and to Ferdinand von Mueller at the Botanical Museum of Melbourne. Hill's books became a core asset of the Queensland Herbarium library. In 1854, Hill participated in an ill-fated expedition north in the ketch "Vision", during which four men were killed by aboriginals who later were hanged. Other explorations included: to the Glasshouse Mountains with Ferdinand Mueller in 1856; Cape York and Endeavour Strait in 1862 with Sir George Bowen; and the 1873 North East Coast Expedition under G. E. Dalrymple. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 500 of Hill's specimens. 1843 1851 Career position - Gardener, Royal Kew Botanical Gardens, England 1855 1881 Career position - Curator, Brisbane Botanic Gardens 1859 1881 Career position - Colonial Botanist of Queensland 1862 1862 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus grandis W.Hill 1919 1919 Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus hillii Maiden Macleay, William Sharp (1792 - 1865) Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1759 - )

Gardener 1843-1851; many of his collections were sent to Kew

 Brisbane Botanic Gardens (1855 - )

Curator 1855 - 1881

 National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds over 500 of Hill's specimens

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 Hill, Walter (18201231-19040204)

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 'Hill, Walter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hill, Walter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hill, Walter (1819-1904), horticulturist McKinnon, Ross Hill, Walter (1819-1904), horticulturist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2005 Australian dictionary of biography: supplement 1580 - 1980, with a name index to the Australian dictionary of biography to 1980 Christopher Cunneen 177-178 Journal Article: Walter Hill's palm collection at the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 1855-1881 Dowe, J. L. Walter Hill's palm collection at the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 1855-1881 2016 Palms and cycads 130 11-24 Journal Article: Walter Hill: the Scotsman who grew Queensland Nielsen, D. and Kumarasuriyar, A. Walter Hill: the Scotsman who grew Queensland 2023 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 132 59-72 Journal Article: "By savage hands his steps were stayed": life and death on the Percy Isles, 1854 Rowland, Michael J. "By savage hands his steps were stayed": life and death on the Percy Isles, 1854 2020 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 124 63-79 Journal Article: Walter Hill: his involvement with palms (Arecaceae), and notes on his herbarium and the expeditions of 1872 and 1873 Dowe, John Leslie Walter Hill: his involvement with palms (Arecaceae), and notes on his herbarium and the expeditions of 1872 and 1873 2016 Austrobaileya 9 4 489-507 Journal Article: Many Beautiful Things: Botanists' Accounts of North Queensland Rainforests Sanderson, Rachel Many Beautiful Things: Botanists' Accounts of North Queensland Rainforests 2007 Historical Records of Australian Science 18 1 1-18 Book: Australian botanist's companion George, Alex S. Australian botanist's companion Kardinya, W.A. Four Gables Press 2009 Journal Article: Who discovered Macadamias? McConachie, Ian Who discovered Macadamias? 2022 Queensland historical journal 24 12 1087-102 Journal Article: Records of Queensland Botanists Maiden, J. H. Records of Queensland Botanists Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1910 Report of the twelfth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12 373-383 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 Book: The Macleay Collectors: a Working Notebook Tilbrook, Louis The Macleay Collectors: a Working Notebook Sydney The Macleay Museum 1992 Walter Hill - Records Queensland Herbarium Walter Hill - Records 1859 - 1881 No records located in 1988. Walter Hill - Records National Herbarium, Melbourne Walter Hill - Records MSS M10 1870 - 1881 Letters from Hill, in Brisbane, to F. Mueller about Australian plants and their identification 1870-81 [MSS M10]. Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes