Hind, Peter David   (1947 - )

He was born in 1947 in Derbyshire, UK,

He migrated with his parents to Australia in the early 60's and continued his education in Sydney at the Ryde Horticultural College.

After graduation, he worked for 8-10 years in the NSW Botanic Gardens both outdoors, and in the glasshouses where he helped to maintain the orchid collection. It was in this period that Peter began his long-term interest in ferns.

After this initiation, he was appointed as The Botanical Assistant, in which position his major task was managing the seed list collection. The list contained mainly species that were scientifically interesting or horticulturally attractive.

This work expanded to include the collecting of wild provenance seed, mainly from NSW and Queensland, and distribution of the seed to scientific institutionsthroughout the world.

Peter has collaborated with many workers by collecting materials for systematic studies. For example in pursuit of specimens for Jim Armstrong's monograph of the genus Zieria, Peter visited nearly every mountain top in Queensland.

He also collected many of the spore fixations for Dr S. K. Roy's cytological studies of Australian ferns.

Peter has a large private fern collection, all meticulously labelled with locality of collection and taxonomic details. The collection is available to researchers, and labels indicate where samples have been taken for use in specialist studies.

Peter's duties at the NSW Botanic Gardens later included assisting with plant identifications for the Department of Land and Water for the Western Division of NSW; data entry particularly for the fern collection; monitoring the plantnet section of the NSW Herbarium web site and keeping it consistent with the National Parks and Wildlife Services of NSW threatened plants list. His active collecting years were from 1966 to 1998.

Source: Extracted from:
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/collpage.pl?nm=Hind~P.D.~
https://anpsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/fern99.pdf
Portrait Photo: 1978, George Chippendale

Collecting localities for 'Hind, P.D.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 11,784 specimens