Person

Mees, Gerlof F.

Born
Holland
Occupation
Biologist and Ornithologist

Summary

Gerlof Mees was Curator of Vertebrates (particularly birds and fish) at the Western Australian Museum 1958-1963.

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Born Holland. Grew up in the East Indies. Ichthyologist, Holland ? to 1958; Curator of Vertebrates (particularly birds and fish), Western Australian Museum 1958-63; curator of Birds, Leiden Museum 1963-retirement; returned to Australia ca 1991. Has a particular interest in Zosterops (Silvereyes), and has visited Norfolk Island twice to study them there, including sighting one which is now extinct.

Archival resources

Western Australian Museum

  • G.F. Mees - Records, 1958 - 1961; Western Australian Museum. Details

Published resources

Resources

See also

  • Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. 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

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018

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