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[Letter acknowledging letter of the 6th and forwarding of letter re: crayfish in the streams of the Northern District.]

Author: Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916; Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton, 1870-1951

Year: 20 August [191]3

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Writer acknowledges receipt of letter of the 6th August and forwarding of letter from Headteacher of Wicklow Hills, while quoting further information provided by Headteacher of Seabrook School claiming that crayfish existed in streams

in the Northern District. Further replies would be welcomed.

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[Letter acknowledging publication of letter of the 18th June re: location of gilgies.]

Author: Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916; Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton, 1870-1951

Year: 6 August 1913

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Letter acknowledges that the recipient's letter of the 18th on gilgies was published in the Education Circular for July and had produced only one reply from Wicklow Hills School, 5 or 6 miles north of Toodyay. The writer concluded

from this that the gilgie does not exist north of the Swan district.

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[Letter requesting information as to the distibution, genus and species of fresh-water crayfish in North-Western Australia]

Author: Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916; Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton, 1870-1951

Year: 18 June [1913]

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Letter requests school children to provide information as to the distibution and genus of fresh-water crayfish or gilgie in North-Western Australia. Two genera are currently known to occur in Australia - Astacopsis in Tasmania,

Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales and Chaeraps, with three species in the south west of Western Australia and a fourth species at Cape York and in Southern New Guinea. It is considered almost certain that this species at one time occured throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory and possibly the gradual drying of the North-West of Western Australia exterminated it, providing an example of discontinuous distribution.

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