Biographical entry Littler, Frank Mervyn (1880 - 1922)

Summary

Frank Mervyn Littler was an accountant, who is most noted for his ornithological and entomological studies and collections. He was a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologist's Union and a member of the Entomological Society (of London), the Entomological Society of America and the American Association of Economic Entomologists. Littler wrote many well received articles in journals and newspapers, but is best known for his text the Handbook of the birds of Tasmania and its dependencies.

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Events

1901 - 1913

Career position - Published numerous articles in The literature of Australian birds

July 1901 - July 1905

Career position - Wrote a fortnightly column on Tasmanian Birds in the Weekly Courier, Launceston

1903 -

Career position - Member of the Entomological Society, London

1910

Career position - Handbook of the birds of Tasmania and its dependencies published

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Abbott, Dennis, 'Littler, Frank Mervyn (1880-1922), Ornithologist, Entomologist and Accountant', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, p. 124. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100113b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Littler, Frank Mervyn', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-568353. Details