Paine, Roland (fl. 1960s)
From the dust-jacket of the 1986 printing of Field Guide to Australian Wildflowers:
"ROLAND PAINE has had a lifelong interest in
the Australian bushland and in various aspects
of its natural life, and estimates that he has
travelled about 36,000 miles within Australia.
As president of the Newcastle Speleology
Society, in the 1960s, he led a scientific expedition into the Nullarbor Plains to carry out
research on limestone caves. He also accompanied the Armidale University expedition into
the Simpson and Sturt's Stony Deserts, where
he undertook research into Aboriginal art and
culture as well as recording wildflowers of the
area.
For more than a decade he has been
Superintendent of Gibraltar Range National
Park, New South Wales, an appointment which
allowed him to pursue his interest in botany.
He is now head of the Interpretations Department for the Northern Region of the National
Parks and Wildlife Service, New South Wales.
Another of his interests is photography, in
which he has won several awards, and he has
had his work published in international
magazines."
He collaborated with his artist wife Margaret Hodson on a book on Australian wildflowers in in 1971.
He has a few herbarium collections from the 1960s in Australian herbaria.
Source: Extracted from:
Hodgson, M. & Paine, R. (1986) 'A FIELD GUIDE TO
AUSTRALIAN
WILDFLOWERS
VOLUME TWO', Rigby,
Portrait Photo: none found.
