Background
Black was born at Wigtown, Scotland and educated at Wigtown Grammar School, the Edinburgh Academy, the College School, Taunton and a commercial trade school in Dresden, Germany.
Black was born at Wigtown, Scotland and educated at Wigtown Grammar School, the Edinburgh Academy, the College School, Taunton and a commercial trade school in Dresden, Germany.
Edinburgh Academy.
His publications assisted many botanists and scientists in the decades that followed. He was the younger brother of theatre and hotel manager Helen Carte. He was a linguist, able to understand Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
He migrated to Australia in 1877 and developed an interest in Australian Aboriginal languages.
He began working as a journalist in 1883. After a tour of South America and Europe following his mother"s death in 1903, Black focused on systematic botany.
In 1909 he published The Naturalised Flora of South Australia. His The Flora of South Australia was published in four parts during 1922 to 1929, and described 2,430 species, both indigenous and naturalized.
lieutenant was indispensable to botanists and to those concerned with the vegetation of the arid regions of contiguous States.
He began a revised edition of his book in 1939 and worked steadily for twelve years, publishing part 1 in 1943 and part 2 in 1948. Participant 3 was nearing completion at his death. He died at his home in North Adelaide.