Person

M'Lennan, Charles H. (1854? - 1915)

Born
1854?
Died
10 December 1915
Occupation
Natural history collector and Ornithologist

Summary

Charles M'Lennan was the first Ranger of Wilsons Promontory National Park 1909-c.1911.

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Born about 1854. Died 10 December 1915. Collector, at one stage dingo trapper on Cambecanya Station, Pine Plains, and first Ranger of Wilsons Promontory National Park 1909-ca 1911. Wrote a 'nature notes' column in the Melbourne Argus from 1904, under the nom-de-plume 'Mallee Bird'. Active in Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

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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

Rosanne Walker

Created: 22 March 2001, Last modified: 9 March 2018

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