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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001300b.htm person McCulloch Allan Riverstone AACR2 20 June 1885 1 September 1925 Place of Birth Concord, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America Ichthyologist Entomologist Allan McCulloch was regarded as one of the most accurate and talented systemic ichthyologists of his time. His love of nature had developed at an early age and when only thirteen he joined the Australian Museum in Sydney as a volunteer. At first McCulloch was employed as a mechanical assistant there and then was sent on dredging operations to discover fish and crustacean species in the ocean's depths (1906). That same year, McCulloch was appointed head of the vertebrates section at the Museum. Throughout his twenty-seven year career at the Museum, McCulloch went on several other expeditions where he collected insects and other creatures, as well as fish. His collections took place in New South Wales, the Great Barrier Reef and many of the islands off the Queensland coast, and at many Pacific Islands. He also wrote numerous articles for the Museum's Records and other journals such as the Australian Zoologist. In the latter journal he published the Check-list of the fish and fish-like animals of New South Wales (3 parts, 1919 - 1922) which was later re-issued as the Australian Zoological Handbook No 1 (1922). McCulloch was also a talented photographer and draughtsman who contributed illustrations to several other publications. 1901 1906 Career position - Mechanical Assistant to ER Waite, Australian Museum in Sydney 1906 1906 Career position - Scientific Assistant on dredging operations off Port Jackson 1906 1925 Career position - Assistant in charge of vertebrates, Australian Museum 1914 1914 Career event - Inaugural Editor, Australian zoologist Inaugural Editor, Australian zoologist 1918 1918 Career position - Joined the Australian Imperial Force 1919 1919 Career event - "Check-list of the fish and fish-like animals of New South Wales" published and later re-released as the Australian Zoological Handbook No 1 (1922) 1922 1922 Career event - Australian Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea 1925 1925 Life event - Travelled to Hawaii to plan the Pan-Pacific Union's fisheries conference Australian zoologist (1914 - )

Inaugural Editor 1914

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Assistant in charge of vertebrates 1906 - 1925

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 McCulloch, Allan R (1885-1925)

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 'McCulloch, Allan Riverstone', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McCulloch, Allan Riverstone Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Book Section: McCulloch, Allan Riverstone (1885-1925), ichthyologist and field naturalist Walsh, G. P. McCulloch, Allan Riverstone (1885-1925), ichthyologist and field naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 244-245 Book: A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia McCulloch, Allan R. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia Sydney Australian Museum 1929-30 Book: Check list of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales McCulloch, Allan R. Check list of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1922 Book: The fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales McCulloch, Allan R. The fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales 3rd Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1934 Book: The naturalist: the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch Atkins, Brenda The naturalist: the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch Sydney NewSouth Publishing 2022 Journal Article: Mr A. R. McCulloch A., C. [ie Anderson, Charles] Mr A. R. McCulloch 1926 Nature 117 596 Journal Article: The late Allan McCulloch H., L. The late Allan McCulloch 1926 Australian zoologist 4 277-8 Journal Article: Allan Riverstone McCulloch, 1885 - 1925 [obituary and bibliography] Anderson, C.; and Whitley, Gilbert P. Allan Riverstone McCulloch, 1885 - 1925 [obituary and bibliography] 1926 Records of the Australian Museum 15 2 141-8 Journal Article: Presidential address Carter, H. J. Presidential address 1927 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51 i-xxix Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949