Person

Kelsall, Conrad Moultrie (1873 - 1936)

Born
1873
Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom
Died
1936
Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Occupation
Natural history collector

Summary

Conrad Kelsall arrived in Australia in the late 1890s and settled on a rainforest block in tropical Queensland on the Little Musgrave River near Cairns. For a few years, both for personal interest and as a potential commercial activity, Kelsall collected butterflies in this area which has a particularly rich butterfly fauna. Through the agency of local natural history dealer Alfred Bernie Bell, Kelsall's specimens passed into the collections of Australian and British lepidopterists. He was acquainted with beetle collector Horace Brown.

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Journal Articles

  • Lambkin, Kevin J., 'Conrad Kelsall: 'Butterflying' on the Little Mulgrave River, north Queensland, in 1903', Archives of Natural History, 40 (2013), 111-8. Details

Resources

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