Frederick Adamson
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Frederick M. Adamson (born 1816, died 1860, age 44){{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/AustraliaVictoriaBmdHistoricalIndex_104|title=Australia Victoria BMD historical index - Deaths 1836-1985|website=Archive.org}} was an early settler in Victoria, Australia. He was the first settler to make botanical collections in the Melbourne area; between 1840 and 1856, he sent to the Kew Herbarium a series of what William Hooker described as "extensive and excellent collections". Several of his specimens became syntypes for Eucalyptus macrorhyncha. Not much else is known about him, except that he was a member of the Philosophical Society of Victoria.
References
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- {{cite book | first = Norman | last = Hall | year = 1978 | title = Botanists of the Eucalypts | location = Australia | publisher = Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization | isbn=0-643-00271-5}}
- {{cite book | author = Willis, J. H. | year = 1988 | chapter = Melbourne: a focal point for early botanical activity | editor = Short, P. S. | title = History of Systematic Botany in Australasia | location = Melbourne | publisher = Australian Systematic Botany Society Inc. | url = http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/publications/history-willis.html | accessdate = 2007-04-10 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070913070551/http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/publications/history-willis.html | archivedate = 2007-09-13 }}
Further reading
- {{cite journal | author = Maiden, Joseph | author-link = Joseph Maiden | year = 1908 | title = Records of Victorian botanists | journal = Victorian Naturalist | volume = 25 | pages = 101–117}}
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Category:Botanical collectors active in Australia
Category:Colony of New South Wales people
Category:People from the Colony of Victoria
Category:Settlers of Melbourne
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