William McLennan Personal Papers : Birdwatching and observation notes

Related Titles

Series: Personal papers: William McLennan

By

Mclennan, William Rae, 1882-1935

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

1906-1923

Notes

Archival size: 1 archive box (28.5 x 43 x 6cm.)

Box 280c

Sometimes written MacLennan

Box 280c. Diary of Rocky Scrub trip, N.Q., 12 Aug 1922-2 Dec 1922 (QMPP-1-6) -- 'Cheerio!' Notebook (QMPP-1-11) -- 11.a "When I Awake" typed poem -- 11.b Shire of Cook rate notice, 21-9-1931 -- 11.c Handwritten note, torn out from graph paper within notebook -- Birdwatching/Observation book 12 Jul 1903-22 Nov 1907 (QMPP-1-52) -- Birdwatching/Observation book 6 Nov 1919-24 Jan 1920 (QMPP-1-53) -- Birdwatching/Observation book Nov 1920-Dec 1920 (QMPP-1-54) -- Birdwatching/Observation book 19 Oct 1921-15 May 1922 (QMPP-1-55) -- Birdwatching/Observation book 13 Nov 1919-19 Dec 1919 (QMPP-1-56) -- Checklist of eggs and nests (Aug-Oct 1921) (QMPP-1-63) -- McLennan's observations: Notes, 1915 (QMPP-1-64) -- Cayley's Birds of Australia Recording Field notes forms (QMPP-1-65) -- McLennan's observations: Notes 1909-1922 (QMPP-1-66) -- McLennan's observations: Unknown birds 1920-1922 (QMPP-1-67) -- Bird calls (QMPP-1-68 -- Cayley's R.A.O.U Checklist (QMPP-1-69).

This collection holds diaries by William R McLennan, where he kept detailed records of locations, bird sightings and collecting during his field work conducted for Henry L. White and W. D. MacGillvary, between 1906-1923.

William Rae McLennan was born at Sandford, Victoria on Aug 20, 1882, and died in Casterton 22 September 1935. He was a naturalist with particular interest in Ornithology. Accompanied W.D.K MacGillivray in many scientific expeditions and was employed to explore and collect new species on Cape York Peninsula and around the Cloncurry area. Results published by MacGillivrary in "Emu". H.L. White later employed McLennan to travel the Gulf country where he secured the large venomous snake later named âœOxyuranus maclennaniâ. McLennan enlisted in 1917 and travelled to Europe as a machine gunner. [Source: Obituary. Emu. Vol XXXV 1936. pp 291- 293]

Subjects

Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) , Cloncurry region (Qld.) , McLennan, William Rae, 1882-1935 , Ornithologists--Australia--Archives , Ornithologists--Diaries , Ornithology--Queensland, North , Ornithology--Queensland--Rocky Scrub Creek

BHL Collections

BHL Australia

William Rae McLennan Collection

Language

English