Edwin Ashby

Edwin Ashby

Edwin Ashby (1861-1941) was an Adelaide based Australian property developer and a noted amateur malacologist and ornithologist. [cite web|url=http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000986b.htm|publisher=University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre - Bright Sparcs|title=Ashby, Edwin (1861 - 1941)|accessdate=2008-07-12] He was a founding member of the South Australian Ornithological Association (SAOA) in 1899, and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901 for which he served as President 1926. The avian genus "Ashbyia" (represented by the Gibberbird "Ashbyia lovensis") was named for him by Gregory Mathews. [cite book|publisher=Melbourne University Press: Melbourne|first=Libby|last=Robbin|year=2001|title=The Flight of the Emu|isbn=0-522-84987-3]

The garden of Ashby's property 'Wittunga' in the Adelaide Hills was developed botanically by his son, Arthur Keith Ashby, donated to the State of South Australia in 1965, and opened to the public in 1975 as Wittunga Botanic Garden. [cite web|url=http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001403b.htm|publisher=University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre - Bright Sparcs|title=Ashby, Arthur Keith (1896 - 1971)|accessdate=2008-07-12]

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