Record ID:
35994356 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • London (England)
Death:
  • Hobart (Tas.)
Associated with:
  • England Australia Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Botanist Academic
Used for:
  • Curtis, Winifred Mary
Notes:
  • Differs from LCNA, viewed 21 September 2018: Curtis, Winifred M.
  • Forests and flowers of Mount Wellington, Tasmania, 1969: title page (Winifred M.Curtis, Ph.D.)
  • Tasmanian Government WWW site, 10 Aug., 2017: (Dr Winifred Curtis; Dr Winifred Mary Curtis AM, PhD, DSc, FLS has been described as "the botanist whose texts have defined Tasmanian flora"; born in London and came to Tasmania in 1939; Dr. Curtis died in Hobart on 14 October 2005) http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csr/information_and_resources/significant_tasmanian_women/significant_tasmanian_women_-_research_listing/dr_winifred_curtis
  • Website viewed 21 September 2018: ("Winifred Mary Curtis AM (1905–2005), botanist and teacher, was born in London and migrated to Tasmania in 1939. She was employed at the University of Tasmania, only the second woman appointed, until her retirement in 1966. Her major publications were Biology for Australian Students (1948–1962), a standard high school text for many years; The Student's Flora of Tasmania (1956–1994), the standard reference work on the flowering plants and conifers; and her most celebrated work, the six-volume Endemic Flora of Tasmania (1967–1975). ") http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Curtis.htm
Local system number:
  • 000001000088
  • abv02021340
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc