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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002214b.htm person Perrin George Samuel AACR2 28 November 1849 24 December 1900 Place of Birth England Place of Death Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Forester George Perrin accepted the position of Conservator of Forests in Tasmania in 1885 and in 1888 was appointed to the new post of Conservator of Forests in Victoria. He had worked as a ranger in charge of the Mt Burr Forest Reserve in South Australia from 1880 before moving to Tasmania. 1853 1853 Life event - Migrated to Victoria with his family 1880 1885 Career position - Forester, Woods and Forests Department of South Australia 1885 1886 Career position - Chief Forester at Wirrabara, Woods and Forests Department of South Australia 1886 1887 Career position - Conservator of Forests, Tasmania 1888 1900? Career position - Conservator of Forests, Victoria 1894 1894 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus perriniana F.Muell. ex Rodway was named in Perrin's honour Colony of Victoria (1851 - 1901)

Conservator of Forests 1888 - 1900?

 Colony of Tasmania (1856 - 1901)

Conservator of Forests 1886 - 1887

 South Australian Woods and Forests Department, Colony and State of South Australia (1883 - 1992)

Forester (later Chief Forester) 1880 - 1886

 Perrin, George Samuel (1847-19001224)

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 'Perrin, George Samuel', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Perrin, George Samuel Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The alps at the crossroads : the quest for an alpine national park in Victoria Johnson, Dick The alps at the crossroads : the quest for an alpine national park in Victoria Melbourne Victorian National Parks Association 1974 Book Section: Perrin, George Samuel Taylor, A. Perrin, George Samuel South Melbourne Oxford University Press 2002 Oxford companion to Australian gardens Aitken, R. and Looker, M. 468-9 Conference Paper: The lives of forty South Australian foresters Dargavel, John The lives of forty South Australian foresters Canberra Australian Forest History Society 2016 Australia's Ever-changing Forests VII: Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc Feary, Sue and Robinson, Rob 14 Resource Section: Australia's Foresters Dargavel, John Australia's Foresters Australian National University 2015 Australian dictionary of biography 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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