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Gould (John). [1839] 



Author of many works and papers on Australian Zoology, and 

 especially of "The Mammals of Australia," 3 vols., foL, L845-1863. 



584 Mammals, forming the famous Gould Collection and including all 

 the material on which that author based bis work. The main collection, 

 consisting of 170 specimens, was purchased in is 11 for £300, but other 

 smaller sets were purchased from fcimetotime throughout Mr. Gould's life. 

 Many small and isolated sets were also presented by Mr. Gould, who had 

 the greatest interest in the increase of the National collection. 



With the exception of Mr. Brian Hodgson's Nepalese collection, this 

 is perhaps the most important acquisition that the Museum ha£ 

 received from a private person — for Mr. Gould went to Australia at a time 

 when no one had studied its Mammalian fauna at all, so that the field 

 was practically virgin, and he worked so successfully as to leave com- 

 paratively little for later authors to do. Mr. Gould collected assiduously 

 himself, and also sent Messrs. J. Gilbert and F. Strange to parts of 

 Australia he was unable to visit. He took especial interest in the 

 family of the Kangaroos, as is evidenced by his "Monograph of the 

 Macropodida3 " (1841-1842), and described many fine new species of that 

 group. Among others his collection contains the types of such notable 

 forms as Macropus antilopinus, M. robust us, M. agilis and M. stig maticus ; 

 of Petrogale lateralis, P. brachyotis and P. concinna; of all the ^Mecies of 

 Onychogale and Lagorchestes ; of Oaloprymnus campestris and Potorous 

 gilberti and P. jrfatyops. 



It was the possession of this collection which enabled the present 

 writer's " Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata," published in 

 1888, to be based on a personal study of almost every existing type of the 

 various groups. 



Graham (K). [1845] 



23 Mammals from Para, including the types of several bats described 

 by Dr. Gray. 



Grahamstown, Albany Museum. [1897] 



8G Mammals from the neighbourhood of Grahamstown. Presented 

 through Dr. S. Schdnland, the Curator. 



Grant (W. R. Ogilvie), Assistant. [1882] 



74 Mammals from Scotland, the Salvage Islands, Sokotra, the Azores, 

 and elsewhere. Presented. 



Gray (Gapt. A.). [1881] 



Mammals from the Arctic Seas, including foetal specimens of several 

 Seals and Cetaceans. Presented. 



Gray (Dr. J. E.), (1800-1875). [1840] 



Assistant in the Department, 1824-40 ; Keeper, 1840-75. 

 Mammals from various localities. Presented. 



To Dr. Gray the growth of the Mammal collection in early years is 

 almost wholly due. His first years in the Museum were more occupied 

 with shells than with Mammals, hut about lS.",(i he began to take up the 

 latter group, and from that date a ceaseless flow of papers and catalogues 

 on the subject came from his pen. A.8 may he seen by his evidence 

 before the Royal Commission of 1835, he had the most advanced ideas 

 about the growth and function of a national museum, and these ideas he 

 did his best to carry out when appointed Keeper of the Department. 



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