Zacharin, Robert Fyfe   (1925 - 2012)

Born 11 April 1925 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died 9 May 2012

Zacharin was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then attended Melbourne University. He qualified MB BS in 1948.

Zacharin was a gynaecologist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and Examiner in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He is also Examiner to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

He travelled extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe, U.S.A., Central America, South and East Africa, Indonesia, China and Nepal, where he trekked to the Annapurna Sanctuary and the Everest Base Camp. He has also visited Mauritius, India and Ceylon, and in all these places has pursued the emigrant eucalypts.

He wrote the book: 'Emigrant Eucalypts, Gum Trees as Exotics' in 1978.

Source: Extracted from: back dust-jacket of 'Emigrant Eucalypts, Gum Trees as Exotics' (1978) Melb.Uni.Press, 137p;
website: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Portrait Photo: Extracted from: dust-jacket above..