MS 198


CAUGHLEY, GRAEME JAMES (1937-1994)


Caughley was an ecologist who worked for CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology 
1979-94. Previous appointments included lecturing at the University of Sydney 
and working as a wildlife biologist in various parts of the world. His major 
contributions were to population ecology and plant-herbivore ecosystems.


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    1   Camps and tramps volume 1, 16 April 1954 - 16 April 1956 
        (photocopy)

    2   Camps and tramps volume 2, 20 May 1956 - 13 July 1957 
        (photocopy)

    3   Diary August - December 1965 (photocopy)

    4   Diary January - October 1966 (photocopy)

    5   Diary 1967 (photocopy)

    6   Diary 1968 (photocopy)

    7   Articles on GJC 1993-94

    8   CSIRO Medals 1993 (VCR)

    9   Untitled VCR


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    1   Certificates:

        BSc 1960

        MSc 1963

        DSc 1975

        The Wildlife Society outstanding publication in wildlife ecology 
        and management 1978 (Analysis of vertebrate populations)

        Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 1993

        PhD 1967 (oversize)

        Special commendation, Whitley Book Awards, The Royal 
        Zoological Society of New South Wales 1987 (Kangaroos) 
        (oversize)

    2   The comparative ecology of the red and grey kangaroo. Masters 
        Thesis, Zoology Department, University of Sydney 1962

    3   Growth, stabilisation and decline of New Zealand populations of 
        the Himalayan thar (Hemitragus jemlahicus); a thesis presented 
        for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology in the 
        University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1967


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    1   The dynamics of mammalian populations, a collection of 
        published work presented for the degree of Doctor of Science, 
        University of Sydney, July 1978

  2-4   Publications, not by GJC, relating to animal conservation in New 
        Zealand 1956-80 (mainly 1973-75) (3 files)

        5.  Material relating to GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of 
        deer in New Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    5   1.  Beginnings


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        Material relating to GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of deer 
        in New Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    1   3.  Deer culler

    2   5.  Private shooter

  3-4   6.  Research (2 files)

    5   7.  Meat hunter

    6   8.  Deer farming

    7   9.  Politics


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        1-3.  Material relating to GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of 
        deer in New Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    1   10.  The law

    2   11.  Wildlife Act

    3   12.  What is to be done?

        4-13.  Notes relating to GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of 
        deer in New Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    4   Preface

    5   References and figures

    6   1.  Beginnings

    7   6.  Research

    8   7.  Meat hunter

    9   8.  Deer farmer

   10   9.  Politics

   11   10.  The law

   12   11.  Wild Life Act

   13   12.  What is to be done?

        14-17.  Copy for GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of deer in 
        New Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

   14   0.  Preface

   15   1.  Beginnings

   16   2.  The context

   17   3.  Deer culler


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        Copy for GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of deer in New 
        Zealand (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    1   4.  Government shooter

    2   5.  Private shooter

    3   6.  Research

    4   7.  Meat hunter

    5   8.  Deer farming

    6   9.  Politics

    7   10.  The law

    8   11.  Wildlife Act

    9   12.  What is to be done?


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        1-2.  GJC’s book, The deer wars; the story of deer in New Zealand 
        (Auckland, Heinemann, 1983)

    1   A.  Skeleton

    2   Published copy, with errors

    3   Kangaroo conservation. Enquiries from overseas countries 1964-
        72

    4   Kangaroo conservation. Enquiries from overseas countries 1972-74

    5   Kangaroo conservation material (file from G R Wilson) 1965-75

    6   Kangaroos - US legislation 1975-83

    7   Minutes of the 79th meeting of the National Parks and Wildlife 
        Advisory Council 7 May 1979

    8   Correspondence with R O Peterson 1975. Material by GJC ca 
        1978, 1984

    9   “Tarurua Forest Park Handbook. The birds”, by Chris Challies and 
        GJC. Undated

   10   1985 International Science School, Science Foundation for Physics


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    1   Material collected by C H Tyndale-Biscoe 1991-95 for GJC’s 
        biographical memoir, published in Historical Records of 
        Australian Science, vol. 12, no. 3


104 cm