Letterbook [manuscript]. 1848 Aug.-1849 Nov.

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Letterbook [manuscript]. 1848 Aug.-1849 Nov.

Letterbook of John Cotton, Doogallook, August 1848-November 1849.

87 p. (1.5 cm.) bound vol.

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Cotton, John, 1801-1849

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He was born in Balham Hill, Clapham Common, London in 1802 and died on 15th December, 1849. Educated University of Oxford (law), he arrived in Australia in 1843. He had published books on song birds in Great Britain and continued his ornithological studies in Victoria, publishing his results as a list of Victorian birds in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science in 1848. He was made a Fellow, Royal Zoological Society for his work on birds. His planned book on the birds of Port Phillip, illustra...