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Gregory Mathews
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- For the Australian cricketer of the 1980s and 90s, see Greg Matthews
Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE (10 September 1876 - 27 March 1949) was an Australian amateur ornithologist.
Mathews made his fortune in mining shares, and moved to England around 1900. He wrote The Birds of Australia (twelve volumes, 1910-1927), assisted by Tom Iredale.
He was Chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1935-1938[1]. He was made CBE in 1939 for his services to ornithology[2].
Mathews described M. s. musgravei, currently recognized as a subspecies of the Splendid Fairy-wren, in 1922 as a new species of bird.[3]
In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its President 1946-1947. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939[2].
- ^ Bull. B.O.C. Vol. 58
- ^ a b Bull. B.O.C. Vol. 59
- ^ Mathews, G.M. (1922). The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby Vol. 10 [62].
- Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3
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