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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-06-28 human Rebecca Rigby updated 2025-03-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005169b.htm person Baxter William AACR2 c. 1792 Botanical collector Gardener William Baxter worked for private British employers as well as Australian botanical gardens as a gardener and botanical collector. Between 1823 and 1830 he collected in Kangaroo Island (South Australia), Sound, Cape Arid and Lucky Bay (Western Australia), and Wilson's Promontory, Victoria. Many of his specimens are now held at the British Museum of Natural History and the herbarium at Kew Botanic Gardens, England. The genus Baxteria and a number of species were named in his honour. 1823 Career event - Collected specimens in Kangaroo Island, S.A., King George Sound, Cape Arid and Lucky Bay, in W.A., and Wilson's Promontory, Vic for British nursery 1828 1829 Career event - Collected on behalf of the Sydney Botanical Gardens and English private employers 1928 1928 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus baxteri Maiden & Blakely was named for Baxter, who collected the type Baxter, William

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 'Baxter, William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Baxter, William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Botany and Society in the Swan River Colony Hamersley, M. J. Botany and Society in the Swan River Colony Sydney Academic Press 1981 People and Plants in Australia D. J. Carr and S. G. M. Carr 259-79 Conference Paper: Botanical Contributions Overlooked: the Role and Recogition of Collectors, Horticulturalists, Explorers and Others in the Early Documentation of the Australian Flora Barker, R. M.; W. R. Botanical Contributions Overlooked: the Role and Recogition of Collectors, Horticulturalists, Explorers and Others in the Early Documentation of the Australian Flora Melbourne Australian Systematic Botany Society 1990 History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 Short, P.S. 37-86 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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