Октавий Уильям Боррелл

Брат Октавий Уильям Боррелл Фс
Рожденный	( 1916-01-19 ) 19 января 1916 г. Смирна, Греция (теперь Измир , Турция)
Умер	18 июля 2007 г. (2007-07-18) (в возрасте 91 года) Булле, Виктория , Австралия
Место отдыха	Секция братьев Марист, католическое кладбище Килмор, Килмор, Виктория , Австралия
Другие имена	Мари Октав
Образование	Мастер науки без экзамена (ботаника)
Альма -матер	Университет Мельбурна
Научная карьера
Поля	Ботаника
Учреждения	Научный сотрудник, Школа ботаники, Университет Мельбурна

Grave markers of Octavius William Borrell and Kevin Agnew, in the Marist Brothers plot of the Catholic Cemetery, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia

Октавиус Уильям Боррелл (19 января 1916 г. - 18 июля 2007 г.) был братом Мариста , учителя миссионерской школы и ботаника.

Жизнь до 1952 года

Октавий Уильям Боррелл родился в греческой Смирне (сегодня Измир , Турция) 19 января 1916 года. В 1931 году, в возрасте 15 лет, он присоединился к Ордену Марист и продолжил свое среднее обучение в учебном колледже братьев Марист в Гераклеоне . С сентября 1935 года по 1952 год брат Уильям преподавал в Collège Sainte Jeanne D'rc, французской двуязычной школе в Шанхае , с дополнительным преподаванием в Collège Saint Ignace . В течение этого периода он продолжил свое образование, завершив свой бакалаврой .

Находясь в Шанхае, Боррелл стал ассоциироваться с Музеем Хеуде , бывшим музеем Зикавеи (徐家汇博物院 徐家汇博物院 徐家汇博物院 徐家汇博物院), расположенным на территории Университета Л'Аурора , частного французского университета, расположенного на французской концессии в Шанхае . С 1942 по 1945 год он был куратором музея ботанического отделения, а также собирал образцы для учреждения. With a colleague at the museum, Brother Paul August, together they wrote the manuscript, Flore de Changhai. Around the same time, a second manuscript on the trees and shrubs of Shanghai was prepared with a student, Xu Bingsheng.

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Borrell and other missionaries spent 3 years in an internment camp. In 1952, Borrell left China to work in other schools. The contents of the Musée Heude was ultimately divided between several different government institutions, including the Shanghai Natural History Museum. It is unclear if any of the plant collections made in this period have been preserved.

Teaching after 1952, and retirement

Borrell continued to teach in schools, including in Dumfries, Scotland, in Malaya, Sarawak, and Taiwan. He went on to teach at St. Francis Xavier's College, Kowloon, Hong Kong From 1974 to 1979, and again in 1980, he was posted to Saint Xavier's Secondary School on Kairiru Island in Wewak, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

He was finally posted to Melbourne in 1980, after which he retired and “"began his work to complete the many projects that he had begun over the years," including completing his studies into the floras of Kairiru, and of Shanghai. In 1981 and 1985 he returned to Kairiru to make further botanical collections.

Return to Shanghai and Flora of the Shanghai Area

In 1991, Borrell returned to Shanghai for six months, where he worked with staff in the botany department of the Shanghai Natural History Museum, and became reacquainted with Professor Xu Bingsheng (徐炳声) of Fudan University. Borrell visited the Shanghai Botanical Garden, and collected on the rapidly urbanising outskirts of Shanghai, to ultimately produce an English-language translation and revision of his Trees and Shrubs of Shanghai manuscript, which became the multi-volume Flora of the Shanghai Area.

Brother William died on 18 July 2007 at Bulleen, Victoria, Australia, aged 91.

Published major works

• O. W. Borrell "Report on an Archaeological Site on Mushu Island, near Wewak, P. N. G." Anthropos 715/6 (1976): 878–886.
• O. W. Borrell "A silver bracelet with an ancient Greek coin found in Wewak, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea" Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 285/6 (1988): 212–217. (Photographic plates.)
• O. William Borrell An annotated checklist of the flora of Kairiru Island, New Guinea (Bulleen, Vic. : O.W. Borrell, 1989).
• O. William Borrell “A short history of the Heude Museum, ‘Musee Heude.’ 1858-1952: Its Botanist and Plant Collector.” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 31(1991): 183–191.
• O. William Borrell Flora of the Shanghai Area 上海植物誌 Volumes 1 and 2 (Collingwood: Brown Prior Anderson Pty Ltd, 1995).
• O. William Borrell and Xu Bing-sheng Flora of the Shanghai Area 上海植物誌 Volume 3. (Bulleen: Marcellin College, 2002).

Significant herbarium collections

• The plant collections that Borrell made between May and October 1991 in Shanghai are now held by the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
• Collections that he made during a posting to Kairiru, Wewak Islands, in Papua New Guinea are held by the Australian National Herbarium.
• Duplicates of collections made on Kairiru, were sent to the Papua New Guinea National Herbarium at Lae Botanic Gardens.

Unpublished papers

• The State Botanical Collection of Victoria, held at the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria includes Brother William's unpublished papers, and manuscripts. This also includes an unpublished typescript of Shanghai Trees and Shrubs.
• The University of Melbourne Archives include field notes, and records relating to plants of Hong Kong, and a typeset paper on The Ferns of Hong Kong.