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Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No 22 Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history Contents: A History of Ornithology in Tasmania; History of Ornithological Exploration of New Guinea; A Brief History of Avian Paleontology in Australia; James Allen Keast - Bird Watcher and Ecologist: An Autobiography; A History of Ornithology in the Top End of the Northern Territory.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No 23 Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history Contents: Who was Gregory Mathews? [Tony Howard], Ornithology at the Queensland Museum [Walter Boles], John and James Cockerell: Father and Son Naturalists [Philippa Horton], Ornithology at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide: 1856-1939 [Philippa Horton, Andrew Black, and Brian Blaylock], A History of Ornithology in Western Australia [Allen H Burbidge and Eleanor Russell].…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 18. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: The First National Ornithologists' Society, Depletion of the Avifauna of the North Island of New Zealand, Museum Victoria, the Australian Museum, Canterbury Museum, Alexander, William Sharp and William John Macleay, the Macleay Museum, and History of Australian Ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 14. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: John Gilbert, the Auckland Museum, the Western Australian Museum, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO), Systematics and Biogeography in Australian Ornithology, Birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, and the History of Threatened Birds in Australia and its Offshore Islands.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. vii, 480pp, index, references, bw ills. Or red coth-no jacket as issued. Near new. 7 chapters on various aspects of Australasian ornithological history including threatened birds in Australia, John Gilbert, museums and a national reference collection. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Octavo,532 pp.,photographs,text illustrations, publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The second of a projected three volumes on the history of Australasian ornithology, is an important contribution to the field. It contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia, and BirdLife Australia); an 1840s perspective on the depletion of the avifauna of the North Island, New Zealand; history of ornithology at: Museum Victoria, Melbourne, the Australian Museum, Sydney, the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand; Alexander and William Sharp and William John Macleay: their ornithology and museum; environmental ornithology at the Australian Museum; and Australian ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Volume one see [stock id 25952].…