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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/P005241b.htm person Johnston Robert Douglas DFC AACR2 30 September 1922 22 June 2011 Place of Birth Manly, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Bellengen, New South Wales, Australia Botanist After serving in the army and air force in World War II, Robert Johnston graduated with honours in botany. In 1951 he joined the Forestry and Timber Bureau, where he worked with Norman Hall on developing a punch-card system for identifying eucalypts and dicotyledon families. Johnston collaborated with other botanists on several publications on eucalypts, notably with Norman Hall, George Chippendale and Rosemary Marryatt. Johnston made a major collection of the grey gum group between 1965 and 1966. 1965 1965 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus racemosa Cav. var. signata (F. Muell) Johnston & Marryatt Forestry and Timber Bureau, Commonwealth of Australia (1946 - 1978)

Botanist with the Forestry and Timber Bureau, later the Division of Forest Research, CSIRO.

 Johnston, R D (19220930-20110622)

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 'Johnston, Robert Douglas', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Johnston, Robert Douglas Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Forest Trees of Australia Boland, D.J.; Brooker, M.I.H,; Chippendale, G.M.; Hall, N, Hyland, B.P.M.; Johnston, R.D.; Kleinig, D.A.; McDonald, M.W.; and Turner, J.D. Forest Trees of Australia 4th East Melbourne CSIRO 1984 Book: Taxonomy and nomenclature of eucalypts. Johnston, Robert Douglas; Marryatt, Rosemary and Australia Forestry and Timber Bureau Taxonomy and nomenclature of eucalypts. Canberra Australian Government Printing 1965 Book: Forest trees of Australia Hall, N.; Johnston, R.D.; and Chippendale, G.M. Forest trees of Australia 3rd (revised & enlarged) Canberra Australian Government Publishing Service 1970 Book: Eucalypts Chippendale, George McCartney and Johston, Robert Douglas Eucalypts Melbourne Thomas Nelson (Australia) 1969 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