Harold Hall Expeditions: Australian Birds, 1960-1969

 
Component identifier:
File 213/44
Content Summary:

Correspondence; field reports; BM(NH) memoranda; minutes of Bird Exploration Fund Committee concerning the Harold Hall expeditions to collect Australian birds, 1962 - 1968.

(160pp)

Correspondents include: JP Harding (BM(NH); JD MacDonald (BM(NH) Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth); GM Storr (Western Australian Museum, Copy); Graham Cowles (Melbourne); Lord De L'Isle (London, Copy).

Subjects include: Letters of acknowledgement for assistance to Australian personnel; finances; personnel to join expeditions; parasites from 1964 expedition; collecting success - problems with 'fauna protection people' and other museum people in Australia; equipment needed; need to collect in Australia - inadequacy of Australian bird material in Museum.

Processing information:
M2605

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Available for Access.
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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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