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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-07-24 human Christine Moje updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005240b.htm person Dwyer Joseph Wilfrid AACR2 12 October 1869 11 October 1939 Place of Birth East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia Botanical collector Minister of religion Ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic church in 1894, Joseph Dwyer later became Bishop of Wagga. Australian botany and the native flora became a great interest to him, and living in many different areas of New South Wales enabled him to study the variety of native flora. He made collections from plants growing in the areas he lived in and visited. In1920 he joined the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Joseph Dwyer published 'A Floral Survey of the South West Slopes of New South Wales around Temora and Barmedman' in 1918. Part of his botanical specimen collection was handed to the Australian National Herbarium (formerly Canberra Botanical Gardens) in 1966. Many of his books are now in the Australian National Botanic Gardens library. 1927 1927 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus dwyerii Maiden & Blakeley was named for Dwyer. Linnean Society of New South Wales (1874 - )

Member 1920 - 1939

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 Dwyer, Joseph Wilfrid (18691012-19391011)

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 'Dwyer, Joseph Wilfrid', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dwyer, Joseph Wilfrid Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: A Floral Survey of the South Western Slopes of N.S. Wales Round about Temora and Barmedman Dwyer, J.W. A Floral Survey of the South Western Slopes of N.S. Wales Round about Temora and Barmedman 1918 The Australian Naturalist [vol. 4, 1918-1921] 4 212-224 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

 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010