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Alexander Clifford Beauglehole

Alexander Clifford "Cliff" Beauglehole OAM (26 August 1920 – 19 January 2002) was an Australian farmer, botanist, plant collector and naturalist.

Alexander Clifford Beauglehole
OAM
Born(1920-08-26)August 26, 1920
Gorae West, Victoria, Australia
DiedJanuary 19, 2002(2002-01-19) (aged 81)
Portland, Victoria, Australia
Resting placePortland, Victoria, Australia
Other namesCliff Beauglehole[1]
SpouseHilda Beauglehole née Oakley
Children2
AwardsOrder of Australia Medal
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, conservation and ornithology.

Life

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Beauglehole was born in Gorae West, a locality near Portland in the Shire of Glenelg, of south-western Victoria, to the Beauglehole family, which were settlers from Cornwall, and arrived in the area in the nineteenth century.[1] He attended Gorae state primary school but left after attaining his Qualifying Certificate to help his parents on the farm.[2] He soon began making botanical surveys of the Portland area, as well as engaging in other natural history activities such as the study of Australian native bees, surveys of bone deposits in caves and the examination of beach-washed seabirds.[3][4] By the 1940s, he had purchased the Gorae West farm from his parents and continued mixed farming there until 1968, when his family along with himself moved into Portland, in order to further his botanical career.[2]

It is also during the 1940s that he discovered a new species of triggerplant, that is now commonly called Beauglehole's Trigger-plant; Stylidium beaugleholei.[5] After 1968, Beauglehole was contracted to carry out botanical surveys in national parks and for the Victorian Land Conservation Council, which became his principal occupation. He published on a wide variety of natural history subjects, including the 13 volume The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, written to cover the 73 study areas of the Victorian Conservation Council.[3][4]

He died from complications after a stroke in 2002[1]

Botanical Collections

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Beauglehole was reported to have had a private herbarium of over 23,000 specimens, and his numbering scheme indicates that over his lifetime he collected over 95,000 specimens.[3][2] The bulk of his plant collections (approximately 69,500 specimens) are held at the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, with approximately 7,000 specimens held by the Western Australian Herbarium.[6] Roughly another 150 specimens from the Ballarat region are held at the Federation University Herbarium.[7]

Museums Victoria holds 583 of zoological specimens of vertebrates and invertebrates, including type specimens, that were collected by Beauglehole in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland.[8]

Published major works

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  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1979. The Distribution and Conservation of native vascular plants in the Victorian Mallee. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1980. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Corangamite – Otway area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1981a. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Alpine area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1981b. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the East Gippsland area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1982. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the North Central area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1983a. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Melbourne area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1983b. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Ballarat area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1984a. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the South Gippsland area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1984b. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in South West Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1985. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Gippsland Lakes Hinterland area, Victoria. (Portland: Western Victorian Field Naturalists Clubs Association.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1986. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Murray Valley area, Victoria. (Portland: A.C. and H.M. Beauglehole.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1987. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the Wimmera area, Victoria. (Portland: A.C. and H.M. Beauglehole.)
  • Beauglehole, A.C. 1988. The Distribution and Conservation of vascular plants in the North East area, Victoria. (Portland: A.C. and H.M. Beauglehole.)

Honours and awards

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In 1971, Beauglehole was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria,[9] becoming an Honorary Member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 1982.[10] In 1984 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to "botany, conservation, and ornithology" by the then-Prince Charles[11]

Legacy

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The following plants, algae, and insect species have been named in his honour:[2]

Algae

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Lichen

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Moss

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Vascular Plants

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Bees

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Wasp

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  • Sericophorus cliffordi Rayment[29]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Beauglehole, Clifford, botanical collector". www.anbg.gov.au. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Ross, J.H. (2002). "Alexander Clifford Beauglehole OAM (26 August 1920–19 January 2002)". Muelleria. 16: 71–79. doi:10.5962/p.254661. S2CID 195469738.
  3. ^ a b c McCarthy, GJ (10 September 2004). "Beauglehole, Alexander Clifford (1920 - 2002)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Alexander Clifford Beauglehole". James Hamlyn Willis Guide to Records. Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet: Stylidium beaugleholei". Government of South Australia, Department of Environment and Water. 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  6. ^ "The Australasian Virtual Herbarium". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH). 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Federation University Herbarium". Victorian Collections. 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Museums Victoria Collections". Museums Victoria. 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  9. ^ Annual Report. Vol. 85. Melbourne, [Vic.] : Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New series. 1972–73. Retrieved 23 November 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  10. ^ Field Naturalists Club of Victoria: Reports of Recent Activities. Vol. 99. South Yarra, [Vic.] : The Victorian Naturalist. 1982. Retrieved 23 November 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  11. ^ "Australian Honours Search Facility". Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  12. ^ Womersley, H.B.S. (1965). "The Helminthocladiaceae (Rhodophyta) of Southern Australia)". Australian Journal of Botany. 13 (3): 451–487. doi:10.1071/BT9650451.
  13. ^ Wood, R.D. (1972). "Characeae of Australia". Nova Hedwigia. 22: 1–120.
  14. ^ Filson, R.B. (1978). "A Revision of The Genus Heterodea Nyl". The Lichenologist. 10 (1): 13–25. doi:10.1017/S0024282978000043. S2CID 86287607.
  15. ^ Stone, Ilma G. (1989). "Revision of Phascum and Acaulon in Australia". Journal of Bryology. 15 (5): 745–777. doi:10.1179/jbr.1989.15.4.745.
  16. ^ Scott, A.J. (1978). "A revision of the Camphorosmioideae (Chenopodiaceae)". Feddes Repertorium. 89 (2–3): 101–119. doi:10.1002/fedr.19780890202.
  17. ^ Jones, D.L. (1991). Australian Orchid Research Volume 2: New Taxa Of Australian Orchidaceae. Essendon, Vic.: Reed Books for Australian Orchid Foundation. ISBN 0959538461.
  18. ^ "Plants of the World Online: Caladenia flavovirens G.W.Carr". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  19. ^ West, K.R.; Raven, P.H. (1977). "Novelties in Australian Epilobium (Onagraceae)". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 15 (2): 101–119. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1977.10432557.
  20. ^ West, K.R. (1992). "A new species of Lobelia L. (Campanulaceae: Lobeliodeae) from Victoria and South Australia". Muelleria. 7 (4): 525–528.
  21. ^ Tippery, N.P.; Les, D.H. (2009). "A New Genus and New Combinations in Australian Villarsia (Menyanthaceae)". Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature. 19 (3): 404–411. doi:10.3417/2007181. S2CID 83567908.
  22. ^ West, K.R. (1942). "Additions to the Orchidaceae of Victoria (the genus Prasophyllum, R.Br)". The Victorian Naturalist. 59 (9): 8–15.
  23. ^ "Plants of the World Online: Genoplesium nudum (Hook.f.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  24. ^ Symon, D.E. (1981). "A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 4: 1–367.
  25. ^ Willis, J.H. (1967). "Systematic notes on the indigenous Australian flora". Muelleria. 1 (3): 117–163. doi:10.5962/p.237615. S2CID 198421723.
  26. ^ Gassin, R.J. (1993). "Utricularia beaugleholei (Lentibulariaceae: Subgenus Utricularia: Section Pleiochasia), a new species from south-eastern Australia". Muelleria. 8 (1): 37–42. doi:10.5962/p.198491. S2CID 91022810.
  27. ^ Walker, K. "Native cliffordiella xylocopine (Exoneura (Brevineura) cliffordiella)". PaDIL. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  28. ^ Walker, K. "Native cliffordiellus hylaeine (Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) cliffordiellus)". PaDIL. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  29. ^ "Specimen T 6780: Sericophorus cliffordi Rayment". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
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