Ralph Tate
1840–1901
Geologist and botanist. Educated at the Royal School of Mines, London. Taught at the London Polytechnic, and in Bristol and Belfast. Founder of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club. Appointed assistant curator at the museum of the Geological Society of London, 1864. Worked on mining prospects in central America and Venezuela. Taught at mining schools in Bristol, Darlington, and Redcar. Elected an associate of the Linnean Society of London, 1867. Appointed to the Elder chair of natural science at the University of Adelaide, 1874. First president of the Royal Society of South Australia.
Sources
Aust. dict. biog.
List of the Linnean Society of London
1867.
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.
List of the Linnean Society of London. London: [Linnean Society of London]. 1805–1939.
