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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-03-23 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-05-09 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003181b.htm person Nicholls Edward Dunham Brooke AACR2 11 February 1877 23 November 1937 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Dentist Writer Ornithologist Brooke Nicholls was trained as a dentist but he eventually gave up dentistry for natural history writing. He wrote two nature stories for children, Jacko, the Broadcasting Kookaburra: his Life and Adventures (1933) and The Amazing Adventures of Billy Penguin (1934) and travel stories, including Blue Coast Caravan (1935, jointly with Frank Dalby Davison).

Born Melbourne, 11 February 1877. Died Auburn, Victoria, 23 November 1937. Educated University of Melbourne (Doctor of Dental Science). Did original work in dental anatomy, but eventually gave up dentistry for writing. A Member of Council of the Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria and a founder of the Gould League of Bird Lovers of Victoria. Pioneer cinematic photographer in the Australian outback. Two of his films, The Living Heart of Australia and Great Barrier Coral Reef were shown commercially in 1923. A literary naturalist who wrote articles for The Emu, The Herald (Melbourne) and other newspapers and magazines and gave broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the late 1920s. Commemorated by a sundial in the grounds of the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary.

 Eugenics Society, The University of Western Australia (1933 - c. 1937) Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria (1910 - 1957)

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 'Nicholls, Edward Dunham Brooke (Brooke)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Nicholls, Edward Dunham Brooke (Brooke) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Pybus, Cassandra A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Sydney Allen & Unwin 2024 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 Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia Wellcome Collection Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia SA/EUG/E.5 1933 - 1937 A set of 19 imaged pages including 2 press cuttings (undated and unsourced): mostly correspondence with Muriel Marion addressed to the 'Eugenics Education Society'; also includes correspondence with Dorothea Cass of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia Inc. with a list of key references on eugenics supplied by the Eugenics Society (London). Includes references to: Professor Dakin; Professor Nicholls; Dr Roberta Jull; Mr G. Bourne; Dr H.J. Gray; Dr R.G. Williams; and the Claremont Hospital for the Insane. 1 file Digitised paper records