Item MM 91180 Photograph - Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria Scientific Expedition to King Island, 1887

Summary

One of thirty-two black and white photographs in an album [two are loose] taken by A J Campbell during a Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria expedition to King Island. The album also includes maps of King Island in the inside front cover and back page and numerous newspaper clippings relating to the expedition. One of the newspaper clippings, written by one of the members of the party, documents the mission of the expedition thus: 'It is our intention, before the introduction of numerous foreign plants and animals rendered it impossible to do so, to ascertain as precisely as we could in the short time at our disposal the fauna and flora indigenous to the island.'

Description of Content

Members of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria at King Island. The men are disembarking from a row boat at Yellow Rock Beach. Other men, possibly crewmen, are assisting with the unloading of luggage and packs. Photograph taken by Archibald J. Campbell, ornithologist and photographer, during a scientific expedition by the group to the island in November 1887.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph mounted on off-white card in bound album.