Record ID:
58770691 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • London, England
Death:
  • London, England
Associated with:
  • Tasmania Western Australia
Occupations:
  • Botanist Zoologist
  • male
Notes:
  • On the Aborigines of Australia, 2005: title page (Augustus Oldfield) pages v-vii (b. Jan. 12, 1821; d. May 21, 1887)
  • A greater prize than gold, 2018: cover (Augustus Oldfield, 19th century botanical collector and ethnographer in Australia)
  • Wikipedia, viewed online 8 April 2019: (Augustus Frederick Oldfield (1820–1887) was an English botanist and zoologist who made large collections of plant specimens in Australia. Oldfield was born on 12 January 1820 in London, England. He made botanical collections in Tasmania, the coastal regions of Western Australia, and on the Nullarbor Plain. Records of his journey note him walking from Sydney to Melbourne, and collections at Twofold Bay, the Huon Valley and mountains in Tasmania, and other regions in the 1850s and 60s. The large body of material in the west of the country was collected from King George Sound to the Murchison River, and he travelled across the Nullarbor to Adelaide. Oldfield published a paper 'On the Aborigines of Australia' in 1865, a detailed survey of the cultural practices of the peoples living near Port Gregory. He died on 22 May 1887, after returning to London in 1862.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Frederick_Oldfield
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX27202
Cataloguing source:
  • AIAS eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc