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Authors
Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A.
Title
Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology
Imprint
Nuttall Ornithological Club, Cambridge (Mass.) , 2008, 481 pp
Subject
History of Natural Sciences Biological Sciences
Description

Memoirs of the Nuttal Ornithological Club, no. 14. Contents include: A man of great zeal and assiduity: the pioneering naturalist John Gilbert in Australia, 1838-1845, by Clemency Fisher; Ornithology at the Auckland Museum, by B. J. Gill; A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum, by R. E. Johnstone; The role of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australian ornithology, by Ian Rowley; Establishing a national reference collection of birds: the first forty years of the birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, by Richard Schodde.

Source
Cohn 2009

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