Person

Hindwood, Keith Alfred (1904 - 1971)

Born
3 July 1904
Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
Died
18 March 1971
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Ornithologist and Company director

Summary

Keith Hindwood was Honorary Ornithologist (later Research Associate) with the Australian Museum for over 40years from 1930 and widely recognised as an authority of Australian birds. His particular interest was in the rock warbler. He published prolifically on natural history topics, particularly birds, pioneer naturalists and early colonial artists. Hindwood wrote a column, 'Nature Notes and Studies', in the Land newspaper 1931 - 1932, under the pseudonym 'Oriole', while his photographs appeared in the Sydney mail between 1928 and 1937. In his lifetime he contributed more material to The Emu than anyone else. Hindwood served as President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

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Chronology

1924 - 1951
Career position - Member, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
1928 - 1970
Career position - Owner of wholesale stationery, office supplies and printing business
1930 - 1971
Career position - Honorary Ornithologist (later Research Associate), Australian Museum
1931 - 1971
Award - Life Member, Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales
1938
Award - Corresponding Member, American Ornithologists' Union
1938 - 1939
Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1944 - 1946
Career position - President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
1950 - 1971
Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1951 - 1971
Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
1959
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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Archival resources

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

  • Keith Alfred Hindwood - Records, 1930 - 1971, ML MSS 2364; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • 'Obituary: Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904-1971) [includes bibliography]', Australian Zoologist, 16 (2) (1971), 37-42. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'A Historic Diary. The Journal of the Voyage of the Lady Penrhyn 1787-1789. By Surgeon Bowes and its relation to contemporary Ornithological Literarure', Emu, 32 (1932), 17-29. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'The Letters of Edwin C. Prince to John Gould in Australia.', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 199-206. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'Some Gouldian Letters', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 206-12. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'Mrs. John Gould', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 131-8. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'John Gould in Australia.', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 95-118. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'Naturalist's Pocket Magazine, 1798-1803', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 87 (1966), 25-27. Details
  • Hindwood, K. A., 'Gracius Joseph Broinowski: His Books and his Prospectuses', Australian Zoologist, 13 (4) (1966), 357-369. Details

Resources

See also

  • McGregor, Russell, Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019), 285 pp. Details
  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J., Rosanne Walker & Helen Cohn

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