[Expedition to the Lake Murray region, Papua] [microform]. 1923.

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[Expedition to the Lake Murray region, Papua] [microform]. 1923.

Chiefly governmental correspondence and memoranda concerning allegations of improper collection of ethnological items by Hurley and A.R. McCulloch, zoologist of the Australian Museum, during an expedition to the Lake Murray region, Papua New Guinea, in 1923.

1 microfilm reel : maps.

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Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962

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Frank Hurley, born James Francis Hurley in Sydney, Australia, on October 15 1885, was a photographer and cinematographer. He left school without qualifications and worked in a steel mill before completing his education at the University of Sydney. He then worked for a firm of photographers but soon left to join the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (leader Douglas Mawson). He took photographs of wildlife and was also a member of the party of three that sledged to the South Magnetic Po...

McCulloch, Allan R. (Allan Riverstone), 1885-1925

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Allan Riverstone McCulloch, icthyologist and field naturalist, was born in Concord, Sydney on 20 June 1885. At the age of 13 he began working as an unpaid assistant to E R Waite at the Australian Museum, who encouraged him in the study of zoology. In 1906 McCulloch was appointed assistant in charge of vertebrates at the museum, and soon afterwards began to specialize in the study of Australian fishes and marine animals. His first paper appeared in the "Records of the Australian Muse...