Gray, Alan Maurice (1943 -  )

Born at Hobart, Tas., on 9 September 1943 and later lived in South Hobart. 

He was educated at Hobart Technical High School (1956-60) and subsequently studied horticulture at the Hobart Technical College. In 1978 he was doing a course in environ-mental design at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. He has had experience in commercial nursery work (1961-64), was an assistant in the Botany Department of the University of Tasmania (1965-67), a copy reader of the Mercury Press (1967-70) and was on the staff of the Forest Research Institute, later the Division of Forest Research, CSIRO (1970-77). By 1978 he was a plant consultant and part-time tutor of botany in the Depart-ment of Environmental Design, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. 

His interests include plant taxonomy, ecology and the propagation and cultivation of Australian native plants. He is pre-eminent in his taxonomic and field knowledge of Tasmanian eucalypts and has a wide experience of the genus on the main-land, especially eastern and southern parts. As well as reports on vegetation surveys and management for Tasmanian localities, Gray has written a number of papers, especially since 1971.

He is honoured in the name Eucalyptus olsenii L. Johnson and D. Blaxell (1979)