INTRODUCTION 
rpHIS first attempt at a complete bibliography of Australian bird books is the result of 
twenty years’ study of the subject, and will include a majority of the books to which 
reference must be made in the study of Australian Ornithology. Many works which provide 
nothing of value have not been recorded, though I have had to examine them. There is much 
of novelty in this account, and it will repay the student’s careful reading. I have incor¬ 
porated all the exact data provided by my friends Mr. C. Davies Sherbom and Dr. C. W. 
Richmond, whose published works must be in the hands of every systematic ornithological 
worker. 
I have also to thank Dr. Theodore S. Palmer, the erudite Secretary of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union, who knows more about the dates of birth and death and the full names 
(as well as the burial places) of the ornithologists of the world than any other man. 
I am citing in connection with the articles the names of the forms, subspecies, species, 
and genera described, so that a complete concordance of the named Aves of Australia is 
here presented. 
I also give life sketches of the two friends who have helped me for so many years. 
Of the two portraits of Sherborn, the one, taken by Dr. G. H. Rodman, shows him as he was 
when he started his monumental work, while the other was taken by Mr. Martin A. C. 
Hinton in 1924. Richmond’s portrait, given on the same plate, shows him as he is to-day. 
CHARLES DAVIES SHERBORN. 
Bom 30th June, 1861, in London, eldest child of Charles William Sherborn (1831-1912), 
the celebrated line-engraver, and Hannah Simpson Sherborn (nee Davies) (1829-1922) of 
Liverpool. Educated by Miss Elizabeth Rye (she was famous as an educationalist) and 
at St. Mark’s College School, Chelsea. 
At age of fifteen went into the business of paper, printed books and metal-goods and 
there obtained such technical knowledge as has well been of use to him in his profession. 
Afterwards spent a year as a tailor. 
Left business for a scientific career and went to Switzerland and Germany for twelve 
months in 1886-7. 
First entered into Geology and Palaeontology, worked under Thomas Dupert Jones 
on Forminifera and Ostracoda. Published in 1888 44 A Bibliography of the Forminifera,” 
and in 1896 “An Index to the Genera and Species of the Forminifera (Smithsonian 
Institution).” In conjunction with Arthur Smith Woodward compiled and published in 
1890 “A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata.” 
Between 1894 and 1908 surveyed the 44 White Chalk of the English Coast ” with Dr. 
H. W. Rowe, and the results were published by the Geologists’ Association of London, 
of which body Sherbom was Honorary Secretary from 1889-1897. 
During the same period worked with Upfield Green surveying western Cornwall, and 
published the results in the Geological Magazine, 1908, 1912 and 1913, and elsewhere. 
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