Thomas Black
1798/9–1894
Irish-born Australian physician. Studied medicine at Glasgow University. Emigrated to Australia in 1833. Founding member of the council of the Zoological Society of Victoria, 1858; appointed member of the Zoological Gardens (of Melbourne) Management Committee between 1858 and 1860. President of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria circa 1868.
Sources
Gillbank 1986
Land and Water, 1 August 1868, pp. 27–8
Prahran Telegraph, 22 September 1894, p. 3
Bibliography
Gillbank, L. 1986. The origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: practical science in the wake of the gold rush. Historical Records of Australian Science 6 (1984–7): 359–74.
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