P005275 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2012-09-24 human Christine Moje updated 2026-05-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005275b.htm corporateBody Victorian School of Forestry AACR2 School of Forestry, Creswick 1910 1973 Start Place Creswick, Victoria, Australia Location Water Street, Creswick, Victoria Education Forestry Technical College The School of Forestry was established in 1910. The School began in a house built in 1884 for Dr John Tremearne, the resident medical officer at the Creswick Hospital from 1872 to 1888.The building has been used since 1909 as a forestry school. Sited next to the Victorian State Nursery and Plantation at Saw Pit Gully, it was the first institution set up in Victoria to train and accredit young foresters. During the 1850s and 1860s much of the forestry around Creswick had been destroyed in the pursuit of gold. The forester John La Gerche was placed in charge of the forest land around Creswick in the late 1880s. He established a State nursery at nearby Saw Pit Gully in 1888 to aid the revegetation of the forests around Creswick. The State nursery and experimental eucalypt and pine plantings soon became the Victorian State Nursery and Plantation. In 1973, the Victorian School of Forestry merged with the University of Melbourne, which created the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. . In 2019 the School's Herbarium, numbering approximately 5,500 specimens collected between 1887 and 1992 by staff and students, was amalgamated with the Herbarium of the University's School of Botany. The University of Melbourne Herbarium, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne (1926 - )

In 2019 the Schools herbarium was incorporated inth the University's Herbarium

 Semmens, Edwin James (1886 - 1980)

Principal 1928 - 1951

 White, Allan Henry (1938 - 2016)

Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry 1959 - 1961

 Hart, Thomas Stephen (1871 - 1960)

Senior Master 1913 - c.1916

 Mckay, Hugh R

Involved in the establishment of the School

 Johnstone, John (1862 - 1937)

Involved in the School's establishment

 Wardle, Henry Thomas (1857 - 1927)

Wardle's collection of wood samples was transferred to the School from the Ballarat School of Mines

 Department of Forestry, The University of Melbourne (1997 - 2005) Carter, Charles Ernest (1885 - 1976)

Principal 1916 - 1926

 Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, The University of Melbourne (1973 - 1995)

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 'Victorian School of Forestry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Victorian School of Forestry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: John Johnstone [n/a] John Johnstone Federation University Australia, Ballarat 2012 Ballarat and District Industrial Heritage Project Newspaper Article: School of Forestry. School of Forestry. 1913 The Argus 5

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 Newspaper Article: Training Foresters: Work at Creswick - A School of Forestry. Training Foresters: Work at Creswick - A School of Forestry. 1909 The Argus 9 Teaching resource: H. T. Wardle Wood Specimen Collection Wardle, Henry Thomas H. T. Wardle Wood Specimen Collection Conference Paper: Victorian School of Forestry: Forestry Education Moulds, Frank R. Victorian School of Forestry: Forestry Education Creswick ANU Society 1992 Australia's Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australia's Forest History, Creswick, 1992 John Dargavel and Sue Feary 129-134 Conference Paper: Victorian School of Forestry: Demonstration Forest Lennon, Jane Victorian School of Forestry: Demonstration Forest Creswick ANU Society 1992 Australia's Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australia's Forest History, Creswick, 1992 John Dargavel and Sue Feary 135-142 Journal Article: Contested Forestries, Contested Educations: a Centenary Reflection Dargavel, John Contested Forestries, Contested Educations: a Centenary Reflection 2012 Australian Journal of Forestry 75 15-21 Journal Article: A history of forestry education in Victoria, 1910-1980 Collett, N. G. A history of forestry education in Victoria, 1910-1980 2010 Australian Forestry 73 34-40 Review: Review of 'Circumspice: One Hundred Years of Forestry Education centred on Creswick, Victoria'. (2010) Youl, R; Fry, B. and Hateley, R. Lennon, Jane Review of 'Circumspice: One Hundred Years of Forestry Education centred on Creswick, Victoria'. (2010) Youl, R; Fry, B. and Hateley, R. 2011 Australian Forest History Society Newsletter 57 6 Book: Circumspice: One Hunded Years of Forestry Education centred on Creswick, Victoria Youl, Rob; Fry, Brian and Hateley, Ron Circumspice: One Hunded Years of Forestry Education centred on Creswick, Victoria South Melbourne Forest Education Centenary Committee 2010 Journal Article: Imperial ethos, dominions reality: forestry education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910 - 1965 Roche, Michael; and Dargavel, John Imperial ethos, dominions reality: forestry education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910 - 1965 2008 Environment and history 14 3 523-43