23. Arnhem Land explorers, SA botanist gathered 13,000 plants |
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| Title : | 23. Arnhem Land explorers, SA botanist gathered 13,000 plants |
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| Source : | The News, 18 November 1948, p. 5 | |||
| Date of creation : | 1948 | |||
| Format : | Newspaper | |||
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| Description : |
Newspaper article about the return of the Adelaide members of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, with an overview of some of the findings and a focus on Ray Specht, the young Adelaide University botanist. Feature photographs show Charles Mountford at work and Ray Specht with some botanical specimens. |
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| Related names : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948) Mountford, Charles P.(Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 Specht, Raymond Louis, 1924- |
| Coverage year : | 1948 |
| Place : | Adelaide |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948). Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1956-1964 Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972 May, Sally K. Collecting cultures : myth, politics, and collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2010 |
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