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MS 022 – WHITLEY, Gilbert Percy (1903-1975)
Ichthyologist and Entomologist

Whitley was Curator of Ichthyology at the Australian Museum 1922-65. He collected insects in Tasmania, eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island and assisted A Musgrave in compiling the Bibliography of Australian entomology 1775-1930 (1932)

  1. A history of the Australian Museum, 1827-1962. Typescript, 388 pp. Unpublished

    Correspondence re shark research

  2. Correspondence as honorary editor of Royal Zoological Society of NSW Proceedings and of the Zoologist, with Tarlton Rayment, 1948-56

  3. Correspondence, 1939-64, with a large number of scientific correspondents, Australian, American, European and Asian zoologists, naturalists and scientific institutions

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