Person

Campbell, Archibald James (1853 - 1929)

Born
18 February 1853
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Died
11 September 1929
Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Ornithologist and Photographer

Summary

Archibald Campbell was active in the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria and was President of the (Royal) Australian Ornithologists' Union in 1909 and 1928. He wrote widely on Australian birds and in 1900 published his major work Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds. He used lantern slides of his photographs of eucalypts in public lectures at the Working Men's College in Melbourne, to awaken public interest in their conservation. Campbell donated his collection of birds eggs to the National Museum of Victoria in 1915.

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Victorian civil service from 1869; weigher, Department of Trade and Customs from 1872; retired from the Federal Customs Department July 1914. Colonial Member, British Ornithologists' Union; Honorary Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union. Founder, Victorian Wattle Club (later League) 1899; one of the founders of the (Royal) Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1901 and president 1909 and 1928; founder, Bird Observers' Club 1905. Published Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds in 1900. Contributed popular articles on the birds of Australia to The Australasian newspaper for years. One of his sons was Archibald George Campbell (q.v.)

Chronology

1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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Archival resources

Museum Victoria

  • Archibald James Campbell - Records, 1880 - 1929; Museum Victoria. Details

Private hands (Campbell, D.)

  • Archibald James Campbell - Records, 1853 - 1929; Private hands (Campbell, D.). Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Archibald James Campbell - Records, 1900 - 1929, MS 9972; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Campbell, Archibald James, Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon, 2 vols (Sheffield, 1099). Details
  • Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • McEvey, Allan, 'Campbell, Archibald James (1853-1929), ornithologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 543-544. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070546b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Abbott, Ian, 'John Gould's foremost successor in Australia: A. J. Campbell's travels in search of birds, their nests and eggs, and his contributions to ornithological knowledge', The Victorian naturalist, 138 (1) (2021), 4-29. Details
  • Campbell, A. J., 'On the protection of native birds. [Topic only]', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 338, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813428. Details
  • Campbell, A. J., 'President's address: the Union and its work', Emu, 10 (1910), 178-81. Details
  • Campbell, A. J., 'A History of Australian Ornithological Research', Emu, 11 (1911), 153-157. Details
  • Campbell, A. J., 'The Ornithology of H. L. White', Emu, 27 (1928), 198-200. Details
  • Ebury, Francis, 'Archibald James Campbell: photographing the Australian environment', History of Photography, 28 (1) (2004), 57-70. Details
  • Iredale, T., 'The passing of Campbell and Leach', Australian zoologist, 6 (2) (1930), 176-7. Details

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See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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