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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-10-18 human Helen Cohn updated 2022-06-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006624b.htm person Reedy Thomas AACR2 1842 January 1929 Place of Birth Ireland Place of Death Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia Thomas Reedy was gardener at Camden Park, the family estate of the Macarthur family, from 1854 to 1926. He rose to be head gardener and worked closely with William Macarthur in his horticulture endeavours. In 1875 he was the most senior of three plant collectors on the Chevert Expedition, a natural history and ethnographic collecting expedition to New Guinea financed and led by William Macleay. Collections of botanical material (seeds, approximately 1,000 living plants and nearly 170 dried specimens) were made along the northern Queensland coast, on islands in Torres Strait, and in New Guinea. The specimens were sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller for identification. Chevert Expedition (1875)

Botanical collector on the Expedition

 'Reedy, Thomas', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Reedy, Thomas Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Thomas Reedy 1842 - 1929: gardener for Sir William Macarthur and plant collector on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea in 1875 Fulton, G. R. Thomas Reedy 1842 - 1929: gardener for Sir William Macarthur and plant collector on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea in 1875 2016 Cunninghamia 16 51-63 Journal Article: Letters from Thomas Reedy to Sir William Macarthur, during the Chevert expedition of 1875 Fulton, G. R.; and Milne, J. Letters from Thomas Reedy to Sir William Macarthur, during the <span style="font-style:italic">Chevert</span> expedition of 1875 2019 Cunninghamia 19 29-32 Book: Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J. Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 Djakarta Noordhoff-Kolff NV 1950