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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000677b.htm person North Alfred John AACR2 11 June 1855 6 May 1917 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ornithologist Alfred North was appointed to the Australian Museum in 1886 and was given a permanent position in 1891. He was noted for his book Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania and was awarded honours by British and American ornithologists' unions.

Alfred North was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and started his career as an Apprentice Jeweller then Jeweller with Henry Young Melbourne. In 1886 Alfred North's early work at the Australian Museum involved the arrangement of the Dobroyde collection of eggs, he was then appointed temporarily to the Australian Museum in December to arrange another collection of birds' eggs and prepare a catalogue of the collections. The Catalogue was published in 1889, the same year North was appointed Assistant Curator to E. P Ramsay focusing principally on the preparation of catalogues of the Australian Birds held in the Museum. In 1891 Norths position at the Australian Museum was formalised as permanent Assistant in Ornithology which he held until 1917.

Alfred North's interest in collecting bird eggs can be traced back to his youth and alongside his work at the Australia Museum he was a founding member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1880), a Corresponding Member of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1902 onwards, and a Colonial Member of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1903. Several genera, species and subspecies of birds were named after him.

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Assistant in Ornithology, Australian Museum, Sydney

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 North, Alfred J (1855-1917)

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 'North, Alfred John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology North, Alfred John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: List of birds collected by the Calvert Exploring Expedition in Western Australia North, Alfred J.; Keartland, G. A. List of birds collected by the Calvert Exploring Expedition in Western Australia Royal Society of South Australia 1898 Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia 22 125-192 Journal Article: Alfred John North: portraity of an ornithologist "in justice and fairness to myself" Cahill, Justin Paul Alfred John North: portraity of an ornithologist "in justice and fairness to myself" 1998 Australian birds 31 3 57-66 Journal Article: Alfred John North, ornithologist: an appreciation Mathews, Gregory M. Alfred John North, ornithologist: an appreciation 1918 Austral avian record 3 6 129-33 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Alfred John North - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Alfred John North - Records Uncatalogued MSS SET 227 1919 Letters 1919. 1 box Alfred John North - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Alfred John North - Records ML MSS 1173 1900 - 1909 Ornithological notebook 1900-09. 1 volume Baldwin Spencer - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Baldwin Spencer - Records ML MSS 29 1880 - 1929 Includes manuscripts by Spencer, 1901-1913; correspondence, 1880-1926 including letters from Edgeworth David, H. Deane, J. J. Fletcher, C. French, W. A. Haswell, C. Hedley, G. C. Henderson, J. P. Hill, G. B. Howes, E. Jenks, J. A. Kershaw, A. Liversidge, A. H. S. Lucas, A. T. Magarey, A. J. North, T. Steel, E. C. Stirling, E. R. Waite, J. A. Watt, J. T. Wilson and C. Winnecke; miscellaneous papers, 1889-1929 consisting chiefly of tributes to Spencer on his retirement, and on his death, with a list of medical and scientific papers by E. C. Stirling. The collection also includes pictorial material. 10 volumes, 1 box, 1 folder