Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
BIOGRAPHY
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Born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 21 December 1870, died in Fulham, South Australia, on 20 January 1954.
An avid plant and bird collector. Collected along the Murray River in South Australia in 1877, in Queensland in 1891, and conducted a series of expeditions between 1911 and 1926 to north-eastern South Australia, Queensland and central Australia. The collections from several of these expeditions were described by J.M.Black, and are now in AD.
Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS. [consult for source references]