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Kershaw, James Andrew (1866 - 1946)

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Zoologist and Museum curator

Born: 13 April 1866 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Died: 16 February 1946 Windsor, Victoria, Australia.

James Andrew Kershaw joined the National Museum, Melbourne in 1883 as an assistant taxidermist to his father William Kershaw. Over the next 48 years James Kershaw rose through the ranks to become museum Director (1929). Although Kershaw officially retired in 1931, he was appointed the museum’s first honorary curator of Zoology. James Kershaw joined the Royal Society of Victoria in 1900 and held many positions within the Society. He was President from 1918-1919.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1883 - 1890 Assistant Taxidermist at the National Museum in Melbourne
1888 - ? Member then President of the Field Naturalists' Club Victoria
1890 Taxidermist at the National Museum
c. 1899 Curator of the Zoological Collection at the National Museum
1900 Member of the Royal Society of Victoria
1908 Royal Australasian Ornathologist's Union expedition to Bass Strait
1908 - 1946 Honorary Secretary of the Wilson's Promontary National Park Committee of Management, Victoria
1909 Expedition to Bass Strait
1911 Platypus studeis at Hopkins River in Victoria
1913 Expedition to the Barrier Reef, Queensland
1918 President of the Royal Society of Victoria
1920 - 1923 Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria
1921 Expedition to Ooldea, Western Australia
1922 Trustee of the Royal Society of Victoria
1924 - 1925 Honorary Librarian of the Royal Society of Victoria
1929 - 1931 Director of the National Museum
1931 Retired and appointed Honorary Curator of Zoology at the National Museum

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 20 January 2005

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