[Letter from the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Melbourne, to Battye, General secretary, Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, W.A.]
Mann, Mahony and Kenyon are writing to Battye re a paper they are preparing for the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Adelaide in August 1924
They are seeking and specimens of grooved stones axes found in WA.
Daniel James Mahony (1878-1944), scientist, was born on 25 March 1878 in East Melbourne.
On 14 April 1931 Mahony became director of the National Museum of Victoria following the retirement of J. A. Kershaw.
In 1937 Mahony was one of the founders of the Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand and was elected first president. A member of the Royal Society of Victoria from 1901, he was president in 1939-40. In addition to his geologic
Alfred Stephen Kenyon (1867-1943), engineer, ethnologist and historian, was born on 7 December 1867 at Homebush, Victoria.
In 1896 Kenyon was elected as a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers (later, of Mining and Metallurgy) and at once became assistant honorary secretary. He delivered his first paper to the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria in 1906 and
From 1931 to 1935 he was president of the (Royal) Historical Society of Victoria, and thereafter edited its journal. He collaborated with Charles Barrett in writing two books dealing with Aboriginals, published in 1932 and 1934, and he was closely concern
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