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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-06-21 human Christine Moje and Neville Walsh updated 2025-03-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005162b.htm person Adamson Frederick M. AACR2 c. 1810 c. 1860 Place of Birth Victoria, Australia Botanical collector Little is known about Victorian settler Frederick Adamson, although he made some 'extensive and excellent collections' (Hooker J.D.,1859) between 1840 and 1855 in the Melbourne area. His samples were sent to Sir William Hooker, first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England, where they became a significant part of the extensive 'Hooker' collection of Australian specimens. At the time that Frederick Adamson collected specimen around Melbourne, virtually no botanical work had emanated from the new settlement. 1853 1853 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus macrorhyncha F. Muell. ex Benth. Flora Australiensis 3:207 (1867) (Red Gum, Red Stringybark, Cannons Stringybark) Adamson collected a syntype. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1759 - )

Frederick Adamson's botanical collections became a significant part of the Australian specimen collection in Kew Gardens.

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 Adamson, Frederick M.

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 'Adamson, Frederick M.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Adamson, Frederick M. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Death Record Death Record Victorian Government Birth Deaths and Marriages Victoria Journal Article: Records of Victorian Botanists Maiden, J. H. Records of Victorian Botanists 1908 The Victorian naturalist 25 101-117 Journal Article: Botanical pioneers in Victoria - III Willis, J. H. Botanical pioneers in Victoria - III 1949 Victorian naturalist 66 7 123-8 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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 Book: On the Flora of Australia: its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution Hooker, Joseph Dalton On the Flora of Australia: its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution London Lovell-Reeve 1859

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 Records of James Hamlyn Willis Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Records of James Hamlyn Willis 1804 - 1996 In his lifetime, Willis amassed an extensive and significant collection of papers and photographs chronicling his youth, education, conservation efforts, botanical research and career, as well as Victoria's botanic and environmental history. Spanning nearly 200 years, the Willis collection includes correspondence; subject files regarding Australian botanists, collectors, botanical expeditions and explorers; plant survey lists and collecting notes; field notes and diaries; a near complete collection of his botanical slides; committee material; manuscripts; addresses; lectures; natural history specimens; newspaper clippings; publications and photographs. 29.94 m, 1987 items Photographs, Objects