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Authorised form of nameMaiden; Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925)
Dates1859 - 1925
Place of birthLondon
Date of birth25 April 1859
Place of deathTurramurra, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death16/11/1925
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
City of London School
Career:
Moved to Australia (1880); Curator, Technical Museum (1881); Consulting Botanist to the Department of Agriculture (1890); Government Botanist and Director of Gardens, Sydney (1896); expert on eucalyptus and acacia; Honorary Secretary, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1909-1922); retired 1924
Memberships:
FLS; FRGS; Royal Society of New South Wales (President 1896 and 1911); Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901-1903)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1916
RelationshipsMarried Jeannie Hammond; four daughters
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; AE
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1926 vol 100 pp viii-xi, plate, signed by R H C and T W E-D
CodeNA1293
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1916/14Maiden, Joseph Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002928Maiden, Joseph Henrynd
IM/002930Maiden, Joseph Henry2001
NLB/53/435Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Joseph Henry] Maiden, FRS10 August 1916
CD/5/9Copy letter from Professor [William Blaxland] Benham, to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society5 August 1922
IM/002931Maiden, Joseph Henry2001
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