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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-06-23 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007034b.htm person Walters Neville E. M. AACR2 1910? 13 April 2004 Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mycologist Solicitor Nev Walters was a mycologist whose expertise was in wood-decaying fungi and timber preservation. After working as a solicitor for several years and serving with the British Army during WWII, he graduated with a BSc in 1950 and joined the CSIRO Division of Forest Products. His research included work on the natural durability of timber. He was particularly interested in Serpula lacrymans, a species exotic to Australia which attacked the poorly-ventilated underfloor of buildings. Walters was responsible for the establishment of an internationally significant collection of specimens and cultures of wood-inhabiting and wood destroying fungi. In 1999, to ensure the preservation of these collections, over 5,000 specimens (representing more than 830 species) were transferred to the National Herbarium of Victoria; the culture collection (approximately 2,100 cultures) was transferred to Ensis, a joint venture between the CSIRO Division of Building Research and Forest Research Australasia Ltd. Walters retired from CSIRO in 1977. 1950 1950 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1951 1951 Career event - Study Leave, Commonwealth Mycological Institute, United Kingdom 1951 1971 Career position - Mycologist and timber preserver, CSIRO Division of Forest Products 1971 1977 Career position - Mycologist and timber preserver, CSIRO Division of Forest Products 1977 1977 Life event - Retired National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Walters' collection of over 5,000 specimens was transferred from the CSIRO Division of Building Research to the Herbarium in 1999

 CSIRO Division of Building Research [I], Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1950 - 1971)

Mycologist and timber preserver 1971 - 1977

 CSIR/O Division of Forest Products (mark I), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1928 - 1971)

Mycologist and timber preserver 1950 - 1971

 'Walters, Neville E. M. (Nev)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Walters, Neville E. M. (Nev) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Australian house fungi Walters, N. E. M. Australian house fungi Highett, Vic. CSIRO Division of Building Research 1973 Book: Tree Diseases in Victoria Marks, G.C.; Fuhrer, B.A.; and Walters, N.E.M. Tree Diseases in Victoria Melbourne, Vic. Forests Commission, Victoria 1982 Journal Article: Vale Nev Walters Johnson, Gary Vale Nev Walters 2005 Australasian mycologist 24 23 47-9