Peter Good
Peter Good (date of birth unknown, died 12 June 1803) was the gardener assistant to botanist Robert Brown on the voyage of HMS Investigator under Matthew Flinders,[1] during which the coast of Australia was charted, and various plants collected.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Good had worked as a foreman at Kew Royal Gardens, during which time he had assisted botanist Christopher Smith in transporting a shipment of English plants to Calcutta.[2] He was working as a kitchen gardener at Wemyss Castle, Scotland, when Joseph Banks offered him the appointment as gardener to Brown, at a salary of £105 a year.[3]
The voyage
[edit | edit source]Good made an extensive seed collection during the voyage, and also collected plant specimens for both his own and Brown's collections. He died of dysentery in Sydney Cove,[4] and his plant collection was incorporated into Brown's. Brown immensely admired his work ethic, and named the plant genus Goodia in his honour.[5] Banksia goodii (Good's Banksia) is also named after him.
See also
[edit | edit source]- List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment
- European and American voyages of scientific exploration
Works
[edit | edit source]- Journal of Peter Good, Gardener on Matthew Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis, 1801–03, Stationery Office Books, September 1981, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Reference section
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ From the Ends of the Earth, Christian Lamb, Christian Lamb, 2004, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). p 40
- ^ The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, Neil Chambers (ed), World Scientific, 2000, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). p 369
- ^ The Life of Matthew Flinders, Miriam Estensen, Allen & Unwin, 2003, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). p 147
- ^ Vallance, T.G., Moore, D.T. & Groves, E.W. 2001. Nature's Investigator The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, (pp.409-410) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Robert Jameson, William Jardine and Henry Darwin Rogers, A. and C. Black, 1858 p333
References
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Further reading
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Natural History Museum The Flinders 1801–1803 HMS Investigator Rock Collection
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