Australian zoologist and conservationist (1904–1970)
Francis Noble Ratcliffe OBE (11 January 1904 – 8 December 1970) was an Australian zoologist and conservationist .
Ratcliffe was born a British citizen in Calcutta , India . He was educated at Berkhamsted School and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and at Princeton University in the USA. After a short period working in London with the Empire Marketing Board , in 1929 he was brought to Australia by the CSIR to study flying foxes in northern New South Wales and Queensland , afterwards returning to Britain to work in the zoology department at the University of Aberdeen . However, he returned to Australia permanently in 1935, working with the CSIR, and its successor the CSIRO, on such problems as wind erosion , termites and rabbit control. He was also a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation , serving as its first Honorary Secretary.
Ratcliffe retired from the CSIRO in 1969. He died in Canberra the following year of a cerebral haemorrhage .
Bibliography
As well as various scientific papers and reports, books authored by Ratcliffe include:
1938 – Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: the Adventures of a Biologist in Australia . Angus and Robertson: Sydney.
1951 – The Rabbit Problem: a Survey of Research Needs and Possibilities . CSIRO: Melbourne.
1952 – Australian termites: The biology, recognition, and economic importance of the common species . CSIRO: Melbourne. 1965 (with Frank Fenner ) Myxmatosis, Cambridge University Press.
1970 – The Commercial Hunting of Kangaroos . Australian Conservation Foundation: Melbourne.
References
"Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904–1970)" . Bright Sparcs: Biographical entry . The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre. 2007.Warhurst, John (2002). "Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904–1970)". Pik – Z . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 16 1940–1980. Melbourne University Press. pp. 61– 62. ISBN 9780522842364 OCLC 174859571 .
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