The Diaries of John McConnell Black. Volume I: Diaries One to Four, 1875-1886. With selected extracts from his "Memoirs". [Together with] Volume II: Diaries Five to Eight, 1887-1910. Edited by his granddaughters, Marjorie Andrew and Shirley Clissold
Hawthorndene and Adelaide, Investigator Press (Volume 1) and the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium (Volume 2), 1986 and 1991. John Black (1855-1951) was a reporter who turned to botany relatively late in life; he emigrated to South Australia in 1877.