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MS 019 – WALL, William Sheridan (1815-1876)
Naturalist and Museum Curator

Wall was engaged as a naturalist with the Australian Museum in ca 1842 and was subsequently curator 1845-59. He published natural history articles in the Illustrated Sydney news during the 1850s and retired in 1859.

'Notes of a journey from Sydney to the Murrumbigi River in pursuit of Specimens of Natural History, September 1844 - January 1845' (typescript copy of original manuscript in private possession). 45 pp

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