George Mack (ornithologist)
- George Mack (ornithologist)
George Mack (1899-1963) was mainly a museum ornithologist and collector. He migrated from Britain to Western Australia in 1919. He worked at the National Museum of Victoria from 1923 to 1945. During this time, he published a revision of the Australian species of the Fairy-wren genus "Malurus".[ cite journal |author=Mack G | year =1934| title =A revision of the genus "Malurus" | journal =Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria | volume =8|pages =100-25] He then worked at the Queensland Museum from 1945, rising to become Director in 1963, the year of his death. It was his controversial action in shooting a Scarlet Robin during the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) campout in Marlo, Victoria in 1935 that catalysed change in the RAOU's attitude to collecting.]References
*Robin, Libby. (2001). "The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001". Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3
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