Specimen notes and photograph
Maker
Frederic Wood Jones (b.1879, d.1954)
Date
1937
Description
Six McCoy Society cards and one black and white photograph of a skull diagram. The McCoy Society cards were printed to inform attendees of a time change to their film viewing event on the 11th of August 1937. These cards have been repurposed as specimen labels for specimens from King Island sent to Wood Jones from Alan Tippet, at the time a young naturalist residing on the island. The handwriting is Wood Jones'. Tippett later accompanied the McCoy Society on their expedition to King Island from December 6th 1937 to January 26th 1938. The cards refer to specimens of quolls, kangaroos, red-necked wallabies, and Tasmanian pademelons - the latter two being described as being collected on King Island by Alan The photograph is of a diagram of the dorsal view of a drawing of a macropod skull similar to diagrams drawn by Wood Jones in his book The Mammals of South Australia.
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