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Norman Vyner Fletcher

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He was taken ill at Stanmore in early December 1889 and a fortnight later died while his father was detained in Brisbane due to his own ill-health. Fletcher is buried in the Old Wesleyan section of
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Botanists of the eucalypts : short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material
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Botanists of the eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material
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In the early 1880s, Fletcher came under the influence of two noted scientists and teachers at Newington — his brother,
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Hall, Norman; Hall, Norman, 1906-. Supplement to Botanists of the eucalypts; CSIRO (1978),
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Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 65
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at the time of his birth. He was educated at Newington, both at
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Index

New South Wales
Stanmore, New South Wales
Australian
Newington College
University of Sydney
Botanist
Joseph Horner Fletcher
Australian
botanist
eucalypts
Australian National Herbarium
New South Wales
Joseph Horner Fletcher
Methodist
minister
Principal
Newington College
Newington House
Parramatta River
Stanmore
University of Sydney
Bachelor of Arts
articled law clerk
Joseph James Fletcher
Technological Museum
Richard Thomas Baker
Rookwood Cemetery
George Abbott
Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators
Births Deaths and Marriages NSW

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