Charles Gardner (botanist)
Charles Gardner | |
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| Born | Charles Austin Gardner 6 January 1896 Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 24 February 1970; (aged 74) Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation | Botanist |
Charles Austin Gardner (6 January 1896 – 24 February 1970) was an
Biography
Born in Lancaster, in England, on 6 January 1896, Gardner emigrated to Western Australia with his family in 1909, where they took possession of land at Yorkrakine.[1][2]
Gardner showed an interest in
During this time he also wrote on botanical topics in governmental and public Western Australian media, including the remote students educational publication Our Rural Magazine. His 'Wildflowers of Western Australia, published by The West Australian in the 1940s went to over twenty editions.[5]
Travels and publications
He travelled widely and published around 320 papers,[6] the most important of which were Contributions to the Flora of Western Australia in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (from 1923), Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis (1930), a census of the state's plants, and Flora of Western Australia Volume 1, Part 1, Gramineae (1952). He described eight genera and around 200 new species. In 1937 he became the first Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
His published works and contributions include,
- (with H.W. Bennetts), (1956) The Toxic Plants of Western Australia, Perth, West Australian Newspapers.
- Lane-Poole, C. E, A primer of forestry, with illustrations of the principal forest trees of Western Australia. 1922.
Legacy
Gardner was awarded the Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia in 1949, and the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1961.
He retired in 1962, and died from
See also
References
- Hall, Norman (1978). Botanists of the Eucalypts. Australia: ISBN 0-643-00271-5.
- "Gardner, Charles A. (1869 - 1970)". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 4 August 2006.
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ^ "Entry in NLA catalogue and Trove regarding variant titles and names as found in library catalogues".
- ^ "STATE BOTANIST". Western Mail. Perth. 24 January 1929. p. 27. Retrieved 29 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "State botanist". The West Australian. Perth. 19 January 1929. p. 18. Retrieved 29 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Gardner, C. A. (Charles Austin); Pelloe, Emily H; Western Australia. Government Tourist Bureau (1964), Wildflowers of Western Australia, Government Tourist Bureau, retrieved 28 August 2021
- ^ C.A. Gardner : bibliography 1923-67, Dept. of Agriculture, 1970, retrieved 29 March 2015
- ^ International Plant Names Index. C.A.Gardner.
Further reading
- (1996) Description of botanist's work (Gardner, C. A.) Wildflower Society of Western Australia newsletter, Vol 34, no. 4, p. 15-18
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