P005896 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2017-11-21 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005896b.htm person Birch Charles Weldon AACR2 Birch, Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch, Charles Weldon Count Zelling 25 June 1821 6 June 1894 Place of Birth Camberwell, England Place of Death Mt Albion, Queensland, Australia Surveyor Naturalist Charles Birch was a surveyor whose early career was with the New South Wales Surveyor General's Department. Between 1852 and 1855 he was Assistant to Samuel Stutchbury on a series of surveys through northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. His role was collect geological and palaeontological specimens and assist with mapping, and take charge of the survey when Stutchbury was ill. Birch move to Queensland several years after his employment with the Surveyor General's Department ceased, spending most of the rest of his life as a pastoralist and surveyor in the Warrego and Bowen Downs regions. In the 1870s he made a number of expeditions through central and north-eastern Queensland collecting botanical and zoological specimens and writing of his travels and specimens in newspaper accounts. Birch was in contact with Ferdinand von Mueller from 1870, initially in relation to reported sightings of a European living with Aborigines and the possibility that he might be missing explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. From that time Birch's collecting activities increased with many botanical specimens being sent to Mueller up until his death. He added de Burgh and Count Zelling to his name on the grounds that they were family names. 1828 1828 Life event - Moved to Australia with his family c. 1841 1852 Career position - Clerk, New South Wales Surveyor General's Office 1852 1855 Career position - Assistant to Geological Surveyor, New South Wales Surveyor General's Office 1862 1862 Life event - Became a pastoralist in the Warrego area, Queensland c. 1870 1889 Career position - Land surveyor at Bowen Downs Station, Queensland National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Approximately 700 specimens are in the Herbarium

 Birch, Charles Weldon (18210625-18940606)

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 'Birch, Charles Weldon', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Birch, Charles Weldon Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-eastern Queensland Dowe, John Leslie Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-eastern Queensland 2016 North Queensland Naturalist 46 16-46