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at the age of 21. He was head gardener at the South Perth Zoological Gardens (now

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) for many years, but was retrenched in the late 1920s with the onset of the Great Depression. Thereafter he spent his time collecting seeds and specimens of native plants. He made a number of collecting expeditions, including one east to Kalgoorlie with

Ivan Carnaby Ivan Clarence Carnaby (24 July 1908 – 1974) was an Australian farmer, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in Subiaco, Western Australia. He published many papers on Southwest Australian birdlife in ''Emu'', '' The Western Australian Nat ...

; another south as far as

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, also with Carnaby; and one along the west coast from Bunbury to

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. He collected the type specimens for a number of ''

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'' taxa, including ' (Silver Mallee), ' (Rosebud Gum), ' (Rose Mallee) and ' (Steedman's Gum). He was joint publisher with Joyce Blakely of the second and third of these species, and also ' (Burdett Gum), ' and '. ' was named in his honour, as was '' Acacia steedmanii'' and '' Melaleuca fulgens'' subsp. '' steedmanii''.

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