Item MM 91272 Photograph - Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria Expedition Group, 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

Group photograph of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria on a scientific expedition to King Island, November 1887. Pictured are [back row left to right]: G. A. Heartland, F. N. Ingawells, M. Sheppard, H. John, W. Hattom, J. Nixon, J. N. McKibbon; [middle row]: C. French, A. Coles, C. Lane, Professor Spencer, Dr Lewellen, T. G. Campbell, E. Cornwall, H. W. Hunt, G. Sweet, Mons Musika [the cook]; [front row]: H. Hughes, Archibald J. Campbell [kneeling], W. Chisholm, C. Frost, D. Le Souef, E. Dombrain, Subinspector Deasey. Two members of the group, C. Chandler and W. A. Sayer are absent and are the men probably taking this photograph.

Physical Description

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