Joseph Milligan
1807–84
Scottish-born surgeon and naturalist in Australia. Surgeon (afterwards surgeon-superintendent), Van Diemen’s Land Co., Surrey Hills, Tasmania, 1830–42. Inspector of convict discipline, 1842–3. Superintendent of Aboriginals and medical officer, 1843–46 and 1847–55. Made a study of Aboriginal languages. Surveyed the territory for mineral resources. Chairman of the Douglas River Coal Mining Co., 1855. Secretary to the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land, 1848–60. Returned to England in 1860; commissioner for Tasmania at the Great Exhibition, 1862. Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1850.
Sources
Aust. dict. biog.
R. Desmond 1994.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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