:Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology

Abstract

A man of great zeal and assiduity: the pioneering naturalist John Gilbert in Australia, 1838-1845 / Clemency Fisher -- Ornithology at the Auckland Museum, New Zealand / B.J. Gill -- A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum / R.E. Johnstone -- The role of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO) in Australian ornithology / Ian Rowley -- The changing faces of systematics and biogeography in Australian ornithology: a young Turk's view / Leo Joseph -- Establishing a national reference collection of birds: the first forty years of the birds of the Austrlian National Wildlife Collection / Richard Schodde -- The history of threatened birds in Australia and its offshore islands / Stephen T. Garnett and Gabriel M. Crowley.