In the current issue of the Historical Records of Australian Science,
2009, v. 20, pp. 280-222, there is a good review of the recent
interesting publication:
William E. Davis, Harry E. Recher, Walter E. Boles and Jerome A.Jackson
(eds): Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology.Memoirs
of the Nuttall Ornithological
Club, No. 14. The Nuttall OrnithologicalClub: Cambridge, MA, 2008. 480
pp.(ISBN: 1-877973-43-2).
pdf available online at:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/index.cfm?act=view_file&file_id=HR09018.pdf
The review notes, that together with Libby Robins The Flight of the
Emu, "the two books present a rounded history of Australians and
the study and appreciation of their birds."
Robin Hide
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