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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-04-04 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-05-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007662b.htm person Caldwell William Hay AACR2 1859 28 August 1941 Zoologist William Caldwell was a Scottish zoologist who travelled to Australia in 1884 to investigate whether platypus laid eggs. "With the assistance of the local Aboriginals, Caldwell set up camp on the banks of the Burnett River in northern Queensland, hunting for lungfish, echidna, and platypus eggs.[3] After extensive searching assisted by a team of 150 Aboriginals, he discovered a few eggs. Mindful of the high cost per word, Caldwell tersely and now famously wired the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Montreal: "Monotremes oviparous, ovum meroblastic". That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles in that only part of the egg divides as it develops." [William Hay Caldwell, Wikipedia, 2025-04-04] 'Caldwell, William Hay', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Caldwell, William Hay Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Field Biology of the Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) - Historical and Current Perspectives Grant, T.R.; and Templesmith, P.D. Field Biology of the Platypus (<span style="font-style:italic">Ornithorhynchus anatinus</span>) - Historical and Current Perspectives 1998 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 353 1372 1081-1091 Journal Article: Does the Platypus Lay Eggs? The History of an Event in Science Gruber, Jacob W. Does the Platypus Lay Eggs? The History of an Event in Science 1991 Archives of Natural History 18 1 51-123 Book Section: The Platypus Frontier: Eggs, Aborigines and Empire in nineteenth-century Queensland Robin, Libby The Platypus Frontier: Eggs, Aborigines and Empire in nineteenth-century Queensland Canberra ANU Press 2005 Dislocating the frontier: essaying the mystique of the Australian outback Deborah Rose and Richard Davis 99-120 Book: Platypus Moyal, Ann Platypus New Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2010 Book: Platypus: the Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World Moyal, Ann Platypus: the Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World Sydney Allen & Unwin 2001 Journal Article: Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, Lungfish and Other Vagaries of 19th Century Science Robin, Libby Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, Lungfish and Other Vagaries of 19th Century Science 2000 Australian Humanities Review 19 Book: Curious Minds: the Discoveries of Australian Naturalists MacInnis, Peter Curious Minds: the Discoveries of Australian Naturalists Canberra National Library of Australia 2012