Person

McEvey, Allan Reginald (1919 - 1996)

Born
5 September 1919
Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
Died
14 December 1996
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Allan McEvey was Curator of birds at the National Museum of Victoria from 1955 for almost 30 years. He was interested in the relationship between ornithology and art and published material on the art of John Cotton, John William Lewin and John Gould.

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Born Rutherglen, Victoria, 5 September 1919. Died 14 December 1996. Educated University of Melbourne. Royal Australian Air Force during World War II; school teacher, Victoria; Curator of Ornithology, National Museum of Victoria 1955 for almost 30 years, developing the avian osteological collection to be one of the best in the world, and caring for the H.L. White collection of bird skins and eggs. Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1980. Played a key role in the establishment of the Society of Wildlife Artists; President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1968-69; first Chairman, RAOU Records Appraisal Committee; member, with D.L. Serventy, of the RAOU Review Committee in 1969, the recommendations of which ushered in the modern era for the RAOU.

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Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Allan Reginald McEvey - Records, 1968, MS 9387; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • McEvey, Allan, 'Le Souef, Albert Alexander Cochrane (1828-1902), pioneer and director of the Zoological Gardens, Melbourne' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 80-81. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050095b.htm. Details
  • 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
  • McEvey, Allan, 'Keartland, George Arthur (1848-1926), naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 540-541. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090539b.htm. Details
  • McEvey, Allan, 'Coleman, Edith (1875-1951), Naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), p. 463. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130508b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • McEvey, A., 'Literary notes no. 2: some Brittlebank bird paintings', Emu, 66 (1966), 189-90. Details
  • McEvey, A., 'RAOU Fellows: citations: Henry Norman Burgess Wettenhall', Emu, 89 (3) (1989), 186-7. Details
  • McEvey, A. R., 'Obituary: Norman Joseph Favaloro', Emu, 91 (4) (1991), 258-60. https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9910258. Details

Resources

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

McCarthy, G.J.

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