Rupp, Harman Montague Rucker - Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne Biographical entry

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Rupp, Harman Montague Rucker (1872 - 1956)

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Botanist and Clergyman

Born: 27 December 1872 Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia. Died: 2 September 1956.

Rupp studied botany at the University of Melbourne (BA 1897). He had many posts as priest and from 1899 made a census of the native plants of his parishes. From 1924 he concentrated on orchids and wrote many books and papers on the subject.

Online Resources

'Rupp, Harman Montague Rucker (1872 - 1956), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, 2001 edn, 2001, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000763b.htm.

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Prepared by: Carolyn Rasmussen & Rachel Tropea
Created: 4 September 2001
Modified: 19 September 2001

Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, October 2001
Comments, questions, corrections and additions: http://www.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/about/inquiries.html#comment
Prepared by: Acknowledgements
Updated: 16 November 2009
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/umfs/biogs/UMFS113b.htm

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