Augustus Frederick Oldfield
1820–87
Botanist and ethnologist. Collected plants in Australia and Tasmania for Ferdinand von Mueller and others during the 1850s. Placed botanical information and specimens at the disposal of Joseph Dalton Hooker and George Bentham. Acquired extensive knowledge of the Australian aborigines. Returned to England by 1863. Became blind circa 1867.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1909): 24–6.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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