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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2024-10-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001929b.htm person Sayce Octavius Albert AACR2 1862 29 April 1911 Place of Birth Melbourne?, Victoria, Australia Place of Death "Maroondah", Upper Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Bacteriologist Naturalist Carcinologist Octavius Sayce was a bacteriologist in Melbourne who was probably the first Australian to work on Crustaceae. He recognised the significance of Tasmanian Syncarida and published new taxa of phreatoicideans and freshwater asellotes. Sayce was an active member of the Field Naturalists Club and the Royal Society of Victoria. In 1911 the National Museum of Victoria purchased his collection of Crustaceae. 1888 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

The Museum purchased Sayce's collection of Crustaceae in 1911

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

Original [founding] member 1888 -

 Sayce, Octavius Albert (-1911)

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 'Sayce, Octavius Albert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sayce, Octavius Albert Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne Pescott, R. T. M. Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne Melbourne National Museum of Victoria 1954