Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858-1937)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Froggatt was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of George Wilson Froggatt, an English architect, and his wife Caroline, daughter of Giacomo Chiosso, who came from a noble Italian family. As a child Froggatt, who was delicate, was encouraged by his mother to find interests in the open air and at an early age began collecting insects. The family having moved to Bendigo, Victoria he was educated at the Corporate High School, Sandhurst (Bendigo), and on leaving school spent four years on the land. In 1880 he went to a goldfield near Milparinka, New South Wales, and then worked his way northward and through Queensland to Mackay, Herberton, Cairns and other parts of the colony. Wherever he went he kept up his collecting of insects.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Froggatt, W. W. 1896. Honey ants. Pp. 385-392 in: Spencer, B. (ed.) Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part II. Zoology. London: Dulau & Co., iv + 431 pp.


 * Froggatt, W. W. 1905. Domestic insects: ants. Agric. Gaz. N. S. W. 16: 861-866


 * Froggatt, W. W. 1906. Domestic insects: ants. With catalogue of Australasian species. Misc. Publ. Dep. Agric. N. S. W. 889: 1-35

REFERENCE

 * Evenhuis, N.L. 1997. Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum (1738-1930). 277-279, portrait