- William Blackall
William E. Blackall (1876–1941) was a
Western Australia medical doctor who made a substantial contribution to that state'sbotany .Born in
Folkestone ,Kent ,England , he emigrated to Perth in 1905. His occupation was in medicine, but he is now best known for his amateur botany. He compiled a personal herbarium of around 5000 specimens, and was the collector of the type specimen from which "Acacia daviesioides " was published. He also began production of an illustrated key to theflora of Western Australia in the 1920s, but died before it was complete.On his death in Perth in 1941, his herbarium was deposited at the
Western Australian Museum , and eventually ended up at theWestern Australian Herbarium . His manuscript was neglected until 1947, when his family asked theUniversity of Western Australia to complete it. This work was taken up by ProfessorBrian Grieve , and resulted in the well-known series "How to know Western Australian wildflowers ".References
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*External links
* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000234b.htm Blackall, William Edward - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry ] at www.asap.unimelb.edu.au - Bright Sparcs Biography
Further reading
* Pearn, John. (2001) "A doctor in the garden : nomen medici in botanicis : Australian flora and the world of medicine' Herston, Qld. : Amphion Press. ISBN 1864995033 "Brief biography of Dr W Blackall, and notes on plants named after him" pp. 89-90.
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