ChinneryEWP

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Biographical data

Chinnery, Ernest William Pearson

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1887, Waterloo, Vict., Australia.

career:

Was educated in anthropology at Christ’s College, Cambridge; Magistrate in Papua, 1909-21 (in 1917 Acting Resident Delta Division); anthropological study of native labour in Papua, 1921-24; Govt Anthropologist, Mandated Territory New Guinea, 1924-32 (in 1930 Rockefeller Fellowship Human Biology, U.S.A. and Europe); Director District Service and Native Affairs Mandated Territory and Member Executive and Legislative Councils, 1932-38; Director Native Affairs, Northern Territory, Australia, 1938-46; Official Adviser native matters Dept of the Interior, 1938-47; at present a member (representing Australia) of the Trusteeship Committee of U.N.O. He took a leading part in the exploration and discovery of New Guinea, and is the author of numerous anthropological and ethnographical papers.

Author of a paper on the Central Mountains of E. New Guinea (Mt Hagen region etc.) in Geogr. J. 84, 1934, p. 398-412.

He was also the collector of 40 sugar-cane varieties for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. of Australia in 1921 (cf. Hawaiian Plant. Rec. 55, 1958, p. 213; Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. Brisbane 15, 1951, p. 40).

Collecting localities:

SE. New Guinea, Papua. 1917. When exploring in the Central Division in the neighbourhood of Mts Yule, Chapman, Strong and St Mary (end of Febr.-May),¹a collection was made on the look-out Pitzoka in the Avau-Muri Valley (March 3-7) and at the Poto Range (9) at an alt. of 7 to 8000 ft.-1921. Papua: in the district of Korigo, Orama, and Durom on the side of Mt Obree in the Owen Stanley Range at c. 700-1000 m alt.

collections:

A collection of ferns and lycopods was made for classification. ?Herb. Brisbane [BRI]. He made an entomological collection too.

literature:

(1) cf. Ann. Rep. Papua for 1916/17, App. C, p. 50-59 (fauna and flora cf. l.c. p. 64).

biographical data:

Pacif. Isl. Monthly l, no 7, 1931, p. 7 (non vidi); Who’s who in Australia 1947.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Chinnery, Ernest William Pearson
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1887, Waterloo, Vict., Australia.
	career: Was educated in anthropology at Christ’s College, Cambridge; Magistrate in Papua, 1909-21 (in 1917 Acting Resident Delta Division); anthropological study of native labour in Papua, 1921-24; Govt Anthropologist, Mandated Territory New Guinea, 1924-32 (in 1930 Rockefeller Fellowship Human Biology, U.S.A. and Europe); Director District Service and Native Affairs Mandated Territory and Member Executive and Legislative Councils, 1932-38; Director Native Affairs, Northern Territory, Australia, 1938-46; Official Adviser native matters Dept of the Interior, 1938-47; at present a member (representing Australia) of the Trusteeship Committee of U.N.O. He took a leading part in the exploration and discovery of New Guinea, and is the author of numerous anthropological and ethnographical papers. Author of a paper on the Central Mountains of E. New Guinea (Mt Hagen region etc.) in Geogr. J. 84, 1934, p. 398-412. He was also the collector of 40 sugar-cane varieties for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. of Australia in 1921 (cf. Hawaiian Plant. Rec. 55, 1958, p. 213; Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. Brisbane 15, 1951, p. 40).
	Collecting localities: SE. New Guinea, Papua. 1917. When exploring in the Central Division in the neighbourhood of Mts Yule, Chapman, Strong and St Mary (end of Febr.-May),¹a collection was made on the look-out Pitzoka in the Avau-Muri Valley (March 3-7) and at the Poto Range (9) at an alt. of 7 to 8000 ft.-1921. Papua: in the district of Korigo, Orama, and Durom on the side of Mt Obree in the Owen Stanley Range at c. 700-1000 m alt.
	collections: A collection of ferns and lycopods was made for classification. ?Herb. Brisbane [BRI]. He made an entomological collection too.
	literature: (1) cf. Ann. Rep. Papua for 1916/17, App. C, p. 50-59 (fauna and flora cf. l.c. p. 64).
	biographical data: Pacif. Isl. Monthly l, no 7, 1931, p. 7 (non vidi); Who’s who in Australia 1947.