User:Hesperian/Notes/Australian botanists

This is an attempt to list all notable people in Australian botany - botanists, botanical collectors, botanical illustrators....

Currently it contains only those botanists who appear in Norman Hall's Botanists of the Eucalypts and Botanists of Australian Acacias. I will eventually add entries from other sources, such as the Australian National Botanic Garden's website's biography section, and Orchard.

There should eventually be articles on the vast majority of people listed here. However, Hall's books list everyone associated with Eucalyptus and Acacia respectively, including non-notable people who collected type specimens; and people after whom species are named, who may be non-notable or notable for reasons other than botanic. Therefore this list will contain some false positives. These should not be struck from this list until their reasons for appearing here have been elucidated. For example, the "Frank Wise" should not be struck from this list until the Frank Wise article mentions that Acacia wiseana is named in his honour. Another example: there will never be an article on the non-notable Salmon Gums farmer "W. T. Brown", but this entry should not be struck until the article on Eucalyptus dielsii names him as the collector of the fruit specimens by which the species was described.

If you add information on a person into an article, add that article to the person's "Done" column. If you identify a botany article as needing to mention a person, add that article to the person's "To do" column. Only strike a person out once that person has been mentioned in all relevant botanical contexts. That means that botanists like George Bentham will probably never be struck out, but we'll cross that bridge once we come to it. There's no need to mention other contexts; for example, we can cross Jess Young off as done as soon as he is mentioned in all the articles on plants he collected, even if no-one has written Giles expedition of May 1875 yet.

This list has only been disambiguated from T onwards.