Record ID:
36176461 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 84066756
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1901
Death:
  • 1970
Fields of activity:
  • Aboriginal Australians
Occupations:
  • Anthropologists Ornithologists Zoologists
Used for:
  • Thomson, Donald, 1901-1970
Notes:
  • His Children of the wilderness, 1983?: t.p. (Donald Thomson) Aus CIP (Thomson, Donald F. (Donald Ferguson), 1901-1970)
  • LC data base 5-25-84 (hdg.: Thomson, Donald F.; usage: Donald F. Thomson)
  • Wikipedia, Sep. 2, 2009 (Donald Thomson; Donald Fergusson Thomson OBE (1901-1970) was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist )
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 31 May 2022: (Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson (1901-1970), anthropologist and zoologist, was born on 26 June 1901 at Brighton, Melbourne; he grew up with a passion for natural history. He studied at the University of Melbourne (B.Sc., 1925; D.Sc., 1934). In 1927 he studied at the University of Sydney for a diploma in anthropology (1928), then embarked on an expedition to conduct anthropological and zoological field-work on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland; he returned to Melbourne in 1929, worked on antivenenes at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. In 1932 he joined the department of anatomy, University of Melbourne, which financed his last expedition (1932-33) to Cape York Peninsula. The publications resulting from his field-work included Birds of Cape York Peninsula (1935). He was attached to the university for most of the remainder of his career, as a research fellow (1932-37 and 1945-53), senior research fellow (1953-64) and professor of anthropology (1964-68). He supported Aboriginal rights; in 1937-1937 he worked in Arnhem Land. In 1938 he was in Cambridge (Ph.D. 1950) but returned to Australia when World War II began and worked in wartime security. After the war he served on the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board from 1957, until he resigned in frustration in 1967; his expeditions to Central Australia were less successful. A fire in 1946 destroyed his substantial amount of film from Arnhem Land. He died at home in Eltham, Victoria, on 12 May 1970. His considerable collections went to Museum Victoria.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thomson-donald-finlay-fergusson-11851
Local system number:
  • 000001183120
  • abv02385778
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX44173
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng DLC Uk DLC AIAS rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc