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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2023-10-24 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007289b.htm person Young Jess AACR2 May 1852 8 October 1909 Place of Birth Wisbech, United Kingdom Place of Death Perth, Western Australia, Australia Botanical collector Explorer Jess Young (sometimes Jesse) accompanied Ernest Giles on the fourth of his explorations through Central Australia. This journey, from May to November 1875, crossed the continent from South Australia to Western Australia. Young's role was as naturalist. After the expedition Young returned to the United Kingdom and became a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. For much of the 1880s he was in the United States, returning once more to the United Kingdom in 1891 to take up a position with the Board of Agriculture. His later career included surveying in Siberia, and as a mining registrar and clerk of courts in Western Australia. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds approximately 250 specimens collected by Young, mostly while with Giles. May 1875 November 1875 Career position - Naturalist on Giles's 1875 expedition from South Australia to Western Australia National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds approximately 250 of Young's specimens

 Giles, William Ernest Powell (Ernest) (1835 - 1897)

Naturalist on Giles's fourth expedition in Central Australia 1875

 'Young, Jess', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Young, Jess Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Recent Journey of Exploration Across the Continent of Australia Young, J. Recent Journey of Exploration Across the Continent of Australia 1878 Journal of the American Geographical Society 10 116-41 Journal Article: Retracing history through herbarium specimens Milne, Pina Retracing history through herbarium specimens 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 75-87 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010 Book: Australia twice traversed : the romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 Giles, Ernest Australia twice traversed : the romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1889