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### Author
Johnston, Robert Mackenzie (1844-1918), Scottish palaeobotanist; to Victoria 1870; from 1882 registrar-general and government statistician of Tasmania.
**Abbreviated name**: *R. Johnst.* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.M.Johnst.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown; some material of his at [[Collection FI|FI]] (in herb. Webb, fide Steinberg).
*Ref*.: Steinberg, C, Webbia 32(1): 28. 1977.
#### Bibliography and biography
Andrews p. 282; Barnhart 2: 259; BB p. 168; BM 2: 938; Desmond p. 348; HR; Quenstedt p. 223.
- Anon., Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 1918: 136-142. (bibl. 103 nos.); Geol. Magaz. ser. 6. 5(6): 288. 1918 (note taken from "Morning Post").
- Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 76. 1978.
- Johnston, R. M., Field memoranda for Tasmanian botanists, 66 p., 1874.
- Maiden, J. H., J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 55: 163. 1921.
- Mennell, Dict. Austral, biogr. 252. 1892.
- Serie, Dict. Austral. biogr. 1: 478-479. 1949.
#### Eponymy
*Johnstonia* A. B. Walkom (1925).
### Publications
##### n.3382. Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania
**Title**
*Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania*,... Hobart (J. Walch & Sons.) Launceston (Walch brothers and Birchall). Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane (Geo. Robertson & Co.), London (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) Tasmania (William Thomas Stratt,... 1888. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Syst. ace. geology Tasmania*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1888, \[i\*, h.t., lacking in UC\], frontisp., \[i, t.p.\]-\[iii\], \[i\]-\[xxxiii\], \[1, err. between vi and vii), \[1\]-408, 10 uncol., 9 col. and 2 folding col. pl. inserted throughout; p. 215-216 lacking, a folding table instead; *pl. 1-3* between \[374\] and \[375\], folding col. pl., *pl. i-lvii* (some col.) with text. (analysis D. E. Johnson 1977). *Copy*: UC.