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Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2018. Hardcover. 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].

Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. Hardcover. 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.

Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2009. Hardcover. 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.

Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Two volumes offered together : pp. (i-iv) v-vi (viii) 481 (482); (iii) iv - xii 532 : red cloth covered boards lettered in gilt. Loosely inserted in each are some loose leaves with pencil notes on the text. Minor lean to volume two. From the library of Louis Pigott, author of The Birdman of Brisbane; Silvester Diggles and his Ornithology of Australia.