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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001518b.htm person St John Percival Reginald Harry AACR2 Saint John, P.R.H. 11 May 1872 12 August 1944 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Botanist Botanical collector Percy St John joined the staff of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens in 1883 as Assistant Label Writer and progressed to become Storekeeper, Seedsman and Classifier in 1924. As Classifier he had charge of the Economic Botany Museum in the Gardens and added many specimens to the Museum. St John was noted for his wide knowledge on the flora and fauna of Victoria and his expertise in Eucalyptus. He was President of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria from 1929 to 1930. Over 3,600 specimens collected by St John are in the National Herbarium of Victoria. 1883 1900 Career position - Assistant Label Writer, Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1900 1917 Career position - Painter and Writer, Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1913 1913 Taxonomy event - St John was commemorated in Eucalyptus stjohnii R.T.Bak. 1917 1924 Career position - Head Gardener, Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1924 1937 Career position - Storekeeper, Seedsman and Classifier, Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1929 1929 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus langii Maiden & Blakely. St John collected the type 1929 1930 Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1937 1937 Life event - Retired National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds over 3,600 specimens collected by St John

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Colony and State of Victoria (1846 - 1958)

Storekeeper, Seedsman and Classifier 1924 -1937

 The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc (1880 - )

President 1929 - 1930

 St John, Percival Reginald Harry (18720511-19440812)

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 'St John, Percival Reginald Harry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology St John, Percival Reginald Harry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Mount Buffalo and Percival R.H. St. John Fletcher, R.J. Mount Buffalo and Percival R.H. St. John 1998 The Victorian naturalist 115 5 192-200 Book: Report on the Grimwade plant collection of Percival St John and botanical exploration of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia) Kellow, A.; Bayly, M.; and Ladiges, P. Y. Report on the Grimwade plant collection of Percival St John and botanical exploration of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia) Carlton, Vic. School of Botany, University of Melbourne 2007 Edited Book: The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens Aitken, Richard and Looker, Michael The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens Melbourne Oxford University Press 2002 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

Source used to compile entry

 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