Alexander, Wilfred Backhouse (1885 - 1965)

Chronology

1909	Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at King's College Cambridge, UK
1910 - 1911	Assistant Demonstrator in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Cambridge
1910 - 1911	Assistant Superintendent at Cambridge Museum of Zoology, UK
1911	Assistant Naturalist to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in England
c. 1911	Master of Arts (MA) completed at King's College Cambridge
1912 - 1913	North Sea expedition assistant for the Western Australian Museum
1913	Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Abrolhos Islands
1915 - 1920	Keeper of Biology at the Western Australian Museum
1916 - 1919	Science Abstractor on secondement to CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1918 - ?	Member of the Checklist Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1920 - 1924	Biologist with the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board in Brisbane
1921	Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union
1924 - 1925	Editor of The Emu journal
1926	American Museum of Natural History
1928	Birds of the Ocean - the first ornithological field guide, published in New York
1929 - 1930	Superintendent of the Tees Estuary survey
1930 - 1945	Director of the Oxford Bird Census (later Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology), UK
1939	Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1945 - 1955	Librarian at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
1947	Naming honour of the Alexander Library in the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornothology
1955	Tucker Medal received from the British Trust for Ornithology
1959	Union Medal received from the British Ornithologists' Union