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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-01-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001078b.htm person Kershaw James Andrew AACR2 13 April 1866 16 February 1946 Place of Birth Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Windsor, Victoria, Australia Zoologist Museum curator James Kershaw joined the National Museum, Melbourne in 1883 as an assistant taxidermist to his father William Kershaw. Over the next 48 years James Kershaw rose through the ranks to become museum Director (1929). Although Kershaw officially retired in 1931, he was appointed the museum's first honorary curator of Zoology. James Kershaw joined the Royal Society of Victoria in 1900 and held many positions within the Society. He was President from 1918-1919. 1 October 1883 June 1890 Career position - Assistant Taxidermist at the National Museum in Melbourne 1888 Career position - Member then President of the Field Naturalists' Club Victoria July 1890 July 1890 Career position - Taxidermist at the National Museum c. 1899 c. 1899 Career position - Curator of the Zoological Collection at the National Museum 1900 1900 Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria 1908 1908 Career position - Royal Australasian Ornathologist's Union expedition to Bass Strait 1908 1946 Career position - Honorary Secretary, Wilson's Promontory National Park Committee of Management, Victoria 1909 1909 Career position - Expedition to Bass Strait 1911 1911 Career position - Platypus studies at Hopkins River in Victoria 1913 1913 Career position - Expedition to the Barrier Reef, Queensland 1918 1918 Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria 1920 1923 Career position - Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Victoria 1921 1921 Career position - Expedition to Ooldea, Western Australia 1922 1922 Career position - Trustee, Royal Society of Victoria 1924 1925 Career position - Honorary Librarian, Royal Society of Victoria 1928 1931 Career position - Director of the National Museum of Victoria 1931 1931 Life event - Retired and appointed Honorary Curator of Zoology at the National Museum National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

Director 1928 - 1931

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President 1918 - 1919

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 'Kershaw, James Andrew', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Kershaw, James Andrew Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Kershaw, James Andrew (1866-1946), scientist Pescott, R. T. M. Kershaw, James Andrew (1866-1946), scientist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 578-579 Journal Article: John Leadbeater of the National Museum Kershaw, Jas. A. John Leadbeater of the National Museum 1944 Victorian naturalist 61 1 23 Journal Article: The late J. A. Kershaw K., R. A. The late J. A. Kershaw 1946 Victorian naturalist 62 243-4 Journal Article: The Kershaw Dynasty Black, J. Hope The Kershaw Dynasty 2005 The Victorian naturalist 122 351-7 Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes 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 Kershaw, James Andrew Portrait Kershaw, James Andrew Portrait Royal Society of Victoria Presidential Portrait

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