Person

Cairn, Edward James

Occupation
Natural history collector

Summary

Edward Cairn collected specimens for the Australian Museum, Sydney. Cairn is known to have made a trip to the Huon Gulf in 1881 and the Astrolabe ranges in New Guinea in 1882.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Edward James Cairn - Records, 1881 - 1882, Uncatalogued MSS set 446; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Conference Papers

  • Brazier, Jan, 'Archives, Objects, Museums: Points of Intersection', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 93-100., https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/brazier.htm. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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