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Journal Article

Author
Hewish, Marilyn
Title
Historical Notes on Charles and Thomas Brittlebank, Pioneer Naturalists in the Werribee Gorge District, West of Melbourne
In
The Victorian naturalist
Imprint
vol. 123, no. 5, 2006, pp. 314-317
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.667886889583076
Subject
History of Natural Sciences Biological Sciences
Abstract

Early FNCV members, the brothers Charles and Thomas Brittlebank pursued their varied interests in natural history in the Werribee Gorge district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They compiled one of the first comprehensive bird lists for the area. Charles was a renowned artist and contributed illustrations of birds and their eggs, insects, fungi and mistletoes for pioneering works on thoise subjects by AJ Cambpell, JA Leach, Charles French, Daniel McAlpine and himself. He published widely and was considered an authority on the evidence for glacial action in Werribee Gorge. Thomas was a skilled egg collector, bird observer, landscape artist and contributor to his brother's and AJ Campbell's studies. Together they helped to lay the foundations of natural history study in Victoria.

Source
Horacek 2006

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