Person

Mack, George (1899 - 1963)

Born
2 October 1899
Killearn, Scotland
Died
24 October 1963
Occupation
Museum director and Ornithologist

Summary

George Mack worked for the Queensland Museum 1945-1963 and was director 1946-1963. Previously he worked for the National Museum of Victoria from 1923.

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Born Killearn, Scotland, 2 October 1899. Died Brisbane, 24 October 1963. Educated University of Melbourne (BSc). War service, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1914-19; migrated to Western Australia ca 1919; National Museum Melbourne 1923-45, ornithologist from 1935 and in charge of the fish collection during World War II; senior scientific assistant to the director of the Queensland Museum 1945, acting director 1946, director 1946-63. President, Royal Society of Queensland; president, Anthropological Society of Queensland; president, Queensland Naturalists' club; executive member, Great Barrier Reef Committee. Professional ornithologist and collector, who wrote a number of articles on taxonomy and believed that it was necessary to study bird skins for positive identification. Wrote Birds from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland (1953).

Chronology

1935 - 1945
Career position - Ornithologist, National Museum of Victoria
1946 - 1965
Career position - Director, Queensland Museum
1949
Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1957
Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland

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Archival resources

Queensland Museum Library

  • George Mack - Records, 1945 - 1963; Queensland Museum Library. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

  • 'Obituary: George Mack', Emu, 63 (4) (1964), 343-344. Details
  • 'George Mack: Obituary', Queensland Naturalist, 17 (3/4) (1964), 75. Details
  • Mack, G., 'John Gould's Correspondence with Sir Frederick McCoy', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 212-6. Details
  • Mack, George, 'The Queensland Museum, 1855-1955', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 13 (2) (1956), 107-24. Details

Resources

See also

  • Amey, Andrew P. and Couper, Patrick J., 'Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - nature: 64: 19-259, 64 (2022), 19-259. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2020-12. 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

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