Forde, Neville (1933 - 2018)

Born 1 May 1933, died, presumably in SA on 25 May 2018.

He worked at the Wimmera Forest Nursery between 1950 and 1953.

Neville was then employed as an assistant to Bob Winkworth at CSIRO in Alice Springs in in the 1950s. He was doing a study of various phyllode forms of mulga around Alice Springs at that time and assisted by Des Nelson.

Some 400 collections recorded for him in the Northern Territory Herbarium would suggest that he was there from 1953 to 1958.

In his later life he was associated with birds and their behaviour.

By the 1970s he was in Adelaide and employed as a lecturer in the School of Applied Science, Torrens College of Advanced Education. He was involved with bird-banding wrote on birds as pollinators of Australian Plants.

In 2006 Neville received an "Unsung Hero of SA Science" award for his work on bird and plant interactions.

Source: Extracted from: Robyn Barker, obituary, ASBS Newsletter, No.176, Sept. 2018, p.30
Des Nelson (2001) 'Me and CSIRO' CSIRO Alumni
https://alumni.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Me-and-CSIRO-Des-Nelson-2001.pdf
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Correspondence - James Hamlyn Willis

Collecting localities for 'Forde, N.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 3,540 specimens