The biography of Augustus Oldfield, 19th-century botanical collector and ethnographer in Australia. Augustus Oldfield trekked throughout Australia from 1845 to 1862 amassing plant specimens that would be used to describe over 700 species new to science, including twenty-one that would ultimately bear his name. He collected extensively in Western Australia, Tasmania and conducted smaller, yet still relevant, expeditions in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. In Western Australia he trekked from the Great Bight to ...
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The biography of Augustus Oldfield, 19th-century botanical collector and ethnographer in Australia. Augustus Oldfield trekked throughout Australia from 1845 to 1862 amassing plant specimens that would be used to describe over 700 species new to science, including twenty-one that would ultimately bear his name. He collected extensively in Western Australia, Tasmania and conducted smaller, yet still relevant, expeditions in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. In Western Australia he trekked from the Great Bight to Shark Bay and made important collections in areas including Albany, Busselton, Bunbury, Kojonup, Perth and north of Geraldton for the National Herbarium of Victoria and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. Yet, despite these achievements, the published historiography is virtually devoid of information about him, mainly due to him being an outsider to the ranks of the era's 'Gentlemen naturalists'.
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