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- 1883-1928. (Creation)
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1 v. ; 30 cm.
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Reginald S. Hurd studied the shells of Australia. His papers are held in the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, including several of his 'cutting books' on a variety of subjects.
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Charles Coxen was an Australian naturalist and politician, who lived at one time on Jondaryan Station with his nephew Henry, then in Bulimba, Brisbane. Elected to the first parliament of Queensland in 1863, he also helped found the Queensland Museum and the Queensland Philosophical Society. His sister Elizabeth married the renouned ornithologist and artist John Gould.
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Elizabeth Coxen [nee Isaac] married Charles in 1851. She was a respected meterologist and conchologist, who at one time curated the shell collection at the Queensland Museum. She was the first women to become a member of the Royal Queensland Society in 1886. She later gave papers to the society including one on the 1893 Queensland floods.
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Bound volume of newspaper cuttings relating to topics in anthropology, taxonomy, meterology, mainly for the period 1883-1893. Includes handwritten index at front of volume.
Presented to the University of Queensland by R.S. Hurd, 20 July 1925.
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Spine loose, pages mostly unbound.
Title page has "C. Coxen, Bulimba" inscribed in ink. Other annotations throughout volume, including remarks on the weather in Bulimba in 1883, one signed "E. Coxen".
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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.