Person

McCulloch, Allan Riverstone (1885 - 1925)

Born
20 June 1885
Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Died
1 September 1925
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Occupation
Ichthyologist and Entomologist

Summary

Allan McCulloch was regarded as one of the most accurate and talented systemic ichthyologists of his time. His love of nature had developed at an early age and when only thirteen he joined the Australian Museum in Sydney as a volunteer. At first McCulloch was employed as a mechanical assistant there and then was sent on dredging operations to discover fish and crustacean species in the ocean's depths (1906). That same year, McCulloch was appointed head of the vertebrates section at the Museum. Throughout his twenty-seven year career at the Museum, McCulloch went on several other expeditions where he collected insects and other creatures, as well as fish. His collections took place in New South Wales, the Great Barrier Reef and many of the islands off the Queensland coast, and at many Pacific Islands. He also wrote numerous articles for the Museum's Records and other journals such as the Australian Zoologist. In the latter journal he published the Check-list of the fish and fish-like animals of New South Wales (3 parts, 1919 - 1922) which was later re-issued as the Australian Zoological Handbook No 1 (1922). McCulloch was also a talented photographer and draughtsman who contributed illustrations to several other publications.

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Chronology

1901 - 1906
Career position - Mechanical Assistant to ER Waite, Australian Museum in Sydney
1906
Career position - Scientific Assistant on dredging operations off Port Jackson
1906 - 1925
Career position - Assistant in charge of vertebrates, Australian Museum
1914
Career event - Inaugural Editor, Australian zoologist Inaugural Editor, Australian zoologist
1918
Career position - Joined the Australian Imperial Force
1919
Career event - "Check-list of the fish and fish-like animals of New South Wales" published and later re-released as the Australian Zoological Handbook No 1 (1922)
1922
Career event - Australian Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea
1925
Life event - Travelled to Hawaii to plan the Pan-Pacific Union's fisheries conference

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Books

  • Atkins, Brenda, The naturalist: the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2022), 208 pp. Details
  • McCulloch, Allan R., Check list of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1922), 104 pp. Details
  • McCulloch, Allan R., A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia (Sydney: Australian Museum, 1929-30), 534 pp. Details
  • McCulloch, Allan R., The fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1934), 104 pp. Details
  • Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Walsh, G. P., 'McCulloch, Allan Riverstone (1885-1925), ichthyologist and field naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 244-245. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100234b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • A., C. [ie Anderson, Charles], 'Mr A. R. McCulloch', Nature, 117 (1926), 596. Details
  • Anderson, C.; and Whitley, Gilbert P., 'Allan Riverstone McCulloch, 1885 - 1925 [obituary and bibliography]', Records of the Australian Museum, 15 (2) (1926), 141-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.15.1926.804. Details
  • H., L., 'The late Allan McCulloch', Australian zoologist, 4 (1926), 277-8. Details

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See also

  • Carter, H. J., 'Presidential address', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 51 (1927), i-xxix. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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