Flashcards: Australian zoologists

George Prideaux Robert Harris (1775–1810) was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810.

Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years.

Wilfred Eade Agar FRS (27 April 1882 – 14 July 1951) was an Anglo-Australian zoologist.

Sir William John Macleay (13 June 1820 – 7 December 1891) was an Australian politician, naturalist, zoologist, and herpetologist.

Michael James Denham White FRS (London, 20 August 1910 – Canberra, 16 December 1983) was a zoologist and cytologist.

William Aitcheson Haswell FRS (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.

Dr Kate Wilson is the Executive Director of the Science Division at the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH).

David Howells Fleay AM MBE (/ˈdeɪvɪd/ /ˈflaɪ/) (6 January 1907 in Ballarat, Victoria – 7 August 1993) was an Australian naturalist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to breed the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in captivity.

Edgar Ravenswood Waite (5 May 1866 – 19 January 1928) was a British/Australian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and ornithologist.

Joseph James Fletcher (7 January 1850 – 15 May 1926) was an Australian biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal.

William Ian Beardmore (WIB) Beveridge was an Australian animal pathologist and director of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Ellis Le Geyt Troughton (born in Sydney on 29 April 1893; died 30 November 1974) was an Australian zoologist and mammalogist.

Mark Adrian Elgar is an Australian behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, based at the University of Melbourne since 1991.

William Norton "Bill" Holsworth is an Australian mammalogist and philanthropist.

Raoul Alexander Mulder is an Australian ornithologist and evolutionary ecologist.

Louise (Lou) Grossfeldt (born Louise Ellen Grossfeldt) is a zoo keeper, primate husbandry specialist and conservationist, based in Australia.

Francis Noble Ratcliffe OBE (11 January 1904 – 8 December 1970) was an Australian zoologist and conservationist.

George Francis Bornemissza (born György Ferenc Bornemissza; 11 February 1924 – 10 April 2014) was a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist.

Sir George Macleay KCMG (1809 – 24 June 1891) was an Australian explorer and politician.

Georgina Sweet OBE (22 January 1875 – 1 January 1946) was an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist.

Oscar Werner Tiegs FRS FAA (12 March 1897 – 5 November 1956) was an Australian zoologist whose career spanned the first half of the 20th century.

Horace Waring (17 December 1910 – 9 August 1980) was an English/Australian zoologist, winner of the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1962.

Sir William Colin Mackenzie (9 March 1877 – 29 June 1938), usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director.

William John Dakin (23 April 1883 – 2 April 1950) was a zoologist who is remembered for the large number of his students who achieved prominence in the area of zoology and for the number of books and papers he wrote on many scientific fields.

William David Lindsay Ride AM (8 May 1926 – 6 November 2011), usually credited as W.

Mabel Josephine (Jo) Mackerras (7 August 1896 – 8 October 1971) was an Australian zoologist, entomologist and parasitologist.

Theodore Thomson Flynn (11 October 1883 - 23 October 1968) was an Australian marine biologist and a professor in both Tasmania and the United Kingdom.

Charles Hedley (27 February 1862 – 14 September 1926) was a naturalist, specifically a malacologist.

Hubert Lyman Clark, Ph.

Lyndal Davies (born 1967 in Brisbane, Australia) is a journalist graduate of Queensland University of Technology.

Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef (17 April 1828 – 7 May 1902) was an Australian zoologist.

David B. Hirst is an arachnologist based at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

Albert Sherbourne Le Souef (30 January 1877 – 31 March 1951) was an Australian zoologist.