Thomas Harvey Johnston
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Thomas Harvey Johnston was an Australian biologist and parasitologist. He championed the efforts to eradicate the invasive prickly pear.
Thomas Harvey Johnston, circa 1930
Part of a joint of a prickly pear cut open to show the pupa cases of a cactus weevil. From the Report of the Prickly-pear Travelling Commission
David Syme Research Prize
Nepabunna, South Australia
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Nepabunna, also spelt Nipapanha, is a small community in the northern Flinders Ranges in north-eastern South Australia, about 600 kilometres north of Adelaide. It is located just west of the Gammon Ra
Thomas Harvey Johnston
…for the rest of his life. From 1928 to 1934, he held the position as professor of botany. Johnston joined a university anthropological expedition to Nepabunna Mission in the northern Flinders Ranges in May 1937 led by J.B. Cleland, which included Charles P. Mountford as ethnologist and photographer, virologist Frank…
Nepabunna Mission, c.1937
Aerial view of the Campbell Bald Hill Range, just south of Nepabunna