Clement, Emile Louis Bruno   (1844 - 1928)

He was born in Muskau in Prussia, Silesia in 1844 (now situated in the German Federal State of Saxony on the border with Poland); he died at Hove in Sussex, UK, on 4 August 1928, aged 84.

Throughout his life, he pursued a variety of occupations, including archaeologist, teacher, naturalist, mining engineer, ethnographer, children's book author, and ethnographic dealer.

He made three trips to Western Australia: 1895; 1896-1898; and 1899-1900.

These trips related to his involvement with establishing and later managing a number of gold mines around the Towranna and Roebourne regions, WA. Among these mines were the Towranna Gold Mines of WA Ltd lease at Towranna and leases held by the Lydia Exploration Syndicate on the Lower Nickol field northwest of Roebourne, WA.

As well as the ethnographic and archaeological material, Dr Clement contributed substantial quantities of botanical material from north-west Australia to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew between 1898 and 1900, as well as to herbaria in Leiden and Berlin.

Malcolm Trudgeon points out, with regard to his Australian herbarium specimens, that:

"Several of his collections are types but all have the same vague location ("Between the Ashburton and De Grey Rivers"). . .
. . . the dots on the AVH map for Clements specimens as far as I can see are just different interpretations of "Between the Ashburton and De Grey Rivers" when specimens have been given geocode at a herbarium which have then migrated it to AVH."

Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Clement
Pers. Comm. Malcolm Trudgen, (2024)
Portrait Photo: Wikipedia

Collecting localities for 'Clement, E.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 63 specimens held in Australasian herbaria (see comment above)