Sullivan, Daniel John (sometimes David)   (1836 - 1895)

Born 20 September 1836 at Mitchelston, Co. Cork, Ireland; died 2nd June, 1895 at Moyston, near Ararat, Victoria.

In charge of Moyston School (near Ararat) for 27 years. To give us an adequate picture of Grampians vegetation, he combed the Ranges, compiling the first breviary of their flora, 'Native Plants of the Grampians and their Vicinity' - ten papers in volumes II and III of Wings Southern Science Record (1882-83).

Sullivan records an amusing circumstance connected with his location of Aotus on heathland at the foot-hills.

'Four suspicious men rode up on horseback to see what he was doing, and held a "pow-wow" on the best course of action. One thought him to be a surveyor, another an artist but the third and fourth maintained that he was a fugitive from the Kelly Gang'.

Source: Extracted from:
Maiden, J.H. (1908). Records of Victorian Botanists. Victorian Naturalist 25:101-117
Willis, J.H. (1949) Botanical pioneers in Victoria-II. Victorian Naturalist 66:103-109
Willis, J.H. (1949) Botanical pioneers in Victoria - III. Victorian Naturalist 66:123-128
Maroske, Sara (2007) 'Educational exsiccatae: Ferdinand von Mueller's botanical lessons in colonial Victoria', reCollections, March 2007, No.1, pp.37-47
Portrait Photo: no date, Moyston State School

Collecting localities for 'Sulllivan, D.' from AVH (2023)

Data from 102 specimens