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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-03-22 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-07-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003175b.htm person Milligan Alexander William AACR2 1858 30 March 1921 Place of Birth Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia Natural history collector Ornithologist Alexander Milligan was Honorary Consulting Ornithologist to the Western Australian Museum 1901-1908 (?). He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Checklist Committee that produced the first Official Check-list of the Birds of Australia (1912).

Born Sulky Gully, near Ballarat, Victoria 1858. Died St Kilda, Victoria, 30 March 1921. Educated at Guildford, near Castlemaine. Moved to Western Australia in 1897 and appointed temporary accountant, Department of Lands and Surveys; clerk, firm of legal practitioners in Perth; Honorary Consulting Ornithologist to the Western Australian Museum from 1901; travelled extensively in south western Australia, collecting; legal firm, Victoria from 1908. Foundation member, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1901, member of Checklist Committee that produced the first Official Check-list of the Birds of Australia, adopted at Launceston, 19th November 1912, with report. A number of birds were named after him by G.M. Mathews (q.v.).

 Western Australian Museum (1891 - )

Consulting Ornithologist 1901- ?

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901 - 1910)

Foundation Member 1901 - 1910

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 Milligan, Alexander William (1858-1921)

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 'Milligan, Alexander William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Milligan, Alexander William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum Johnstone, R. E. A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum Cambridge, Mass. Nuttall Ornithological Club 2008 Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A. 165-98 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 Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records A 316 c. 1833 - c. 1854 Includes: accounts of collecting expeditions, lists, notes, and correspondence relating to botanical specimens; narrative of an excursion into the interior of Van Diemen's Land from Launceston, January 1833, including descriptions of vegetation, the terrain, emus, and kangaroo hunting; cruise with the Franklins along the north coast of D'Entrecasteaux Channel, 10-21 December 1838; account of collecting trips for March and October 1844 and descriptions of plants with botanical names in Latin; correspondence, correspondents include Gunn, W.J. Hooker (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew), Joseph Milligan, Joseph Allport, "Will Auhuss"? [William Archer Jnr], and discussion of legal matters relating to colonial property [possibly from Lady Franklin]; many letters commence with "My Dear Gunn" but are unsigned. One letter contains sketches of orchids Lists and notes List of plants, seeds, etc. in the Botanic Garden Melbourne Catalogue of plants received from Miss Readknight, Mr R. Burke, and Mr J.G. Robertson List of duplicates sent to Hooker, 1846