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Le Souef, William Henry Dudley (1856 - 1923) |
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| Zoo director and Ornithologist | ||||
| Born: 28 September 1856 Elwood, Victoria, Australia. Died: 6 September 1923 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | ||||
| William Henry D. Le Souef was appointed Assistant-Secretary to the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria in 1874. Between 1880-88 he made collecting trips overseas and in 1902 he succeeded his father A.A.C. Le Soeuf (qv) as Director of the Melbourne Zoological Gardens. |
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| Born Elwood, Victoria, 28 September 1856. Died Melbourne, 6 September 1923. Educated Crediton Grammar School, Devonshire, England. Assistant-secretary, Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria 1874-90, making collecting trips overseas 1880-88; Assistant-director, Melbourne Zoological Gardens 1890-1902, Director 1902-23, replacing bars with high walls and moats, hidden from view by simulated rocks and logs. President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1907-09. His collection of birds' eggs became part of the H.L. White (q.v.) collection and is now in the National Museum, Melbourne. Collected insects. Austromalaya souefi Distant, 1910, named after him. Nature photographer and lantern lecturer. Wrote Wildlife in Australia (1907), Animals of Australia (1909, with A.H.S. Lucas, q.v.) and Birds of Australia (1911, with A.H.S. Lucas). | ||
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