Early Tasmanian Ornithology: The Correspondence of Ronald Campbell Gunn and James Grant 1836-1838

Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club Volume 16. This correspondence is the earliest attempt to identify and arrange taxonomically the birds of Tasmania and is some of the earliest avian taxonomic work by residents of Australia. It illustrates the difficulties implicit in taxonomic work in a pre-Darwinian era. 263 pp., frontispiece, 30 figures, 2 appendices.