Western Australian Museum

Vertebrate surveys in semi-arid Western Australia

Author: Humphreys, W. F. (William Frank)

Year: 1984

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[Letter re: how native animals are rapidly dying out in his district]

Author: Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Henville, Walter Sampson, ca. 1860-1944

Year: 12 November 1936

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Letter to the Curator of the Museum from H.P. Rockett, Southern Cross. Thanks for your note re: Spiny weevil Acanthalophus. Offer to collect other specimens. 7/1/1928. 1p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert, Curator of the Museum to H.P Rockett. Thanks for your offer to collect specimens for the Museum. Anything apart from birds would be welcome. 14/1/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert, from S. Feagey, Greenbushes. Reports sighting of the little squirrel near Balingup. 21/01/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert, to S. Feagey, Greenbushes. Thanks for report of fauna sighting. Should you acquire any specimens, please forward them to the Museum. 26/01/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from Lewis Crompton, Burekup. Following your article in the Sunday Times inquiring about the Kangaroo Rat. Years ago there were hundreds about Lake Preston and the Myalup Swamp on the Coast. I saw one years ago at the Welsley near the Mornington Brook. Last year they had vanished. The opossum is now scarce in that locality. I have seen an animal about the size of a mouse but looked like an opossum and another about the same size with a dog’s nose and head and with a pouch like a native cat. Please identify. 30/01/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert to Lewis Crompton, Burekup. Thank you for your information regarding the distribution of the Kangaroo Rat. It is difficult to identify the animals from your description, but I suggest that one is a Munarda or Pigmy Opossum Dromicia conciana and the other is a Pouched Mouse or Dunnart Sminthopsis murina. 30/01/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from T.J. Sinclair, North Perth. Information about Giant Earthworms at a building site on the corner of Wright St and Lincoln St, Perth where you could obtain specimens. 07/02/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert, to T.J. Sinclair. Thanking you for information about the Giant Earthworms. We will make efforts to obtain specimens. 07/02/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from J. Jefferson, Subiaco. Please identify this stone. It was found amongst debris following my chimney being struck by lightning. 01/03/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert to J. Jefferson, Subiaco. The stone found is not a natural product. It is probably a portion of your building fused as a result of the electrical discharge. 01/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from F.L. Berney, Barcarolle, Longreach, Queensland. Seeking information about the Flock Pidgeon, Histriophaps histrionica. Has been asked to write an article on the subject for the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Reports of previous sightings included in letter. 28/01/1928. 3 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert to F.L. Berney, Barcarolle, Longreach, Queensland. The Flock Pidgeon, Histriophaps histrionica is found in Western Australia but it seems to be limited to the Kimberley district. The Chief Inspector of Fisheries reports that it is plentiful. It is one of the protected birds of the state. 01/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from W. Jackson, Dangin. Please identify this beetle which is common in this district. 09/01/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert to W. Jackson, Dangin. The specimen is a Pentatomid Bug, an insect which is destructive to vegetation. 02/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from G. Brown, Maylands. Please identify a small snake, now dead, found in my garden. 29/02/1928. 1 p.
reply from Ludwig Glauert to G. Brown. The specimen is not a snake but a lizard known as Burtons Slow Worm, Lialis burtonis. 03/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to Ludwig Glauert from Harold Rowe of Claymore. Please identify a growth taken from a Sheoak tree in the Claymore district. 23/03/1928. 1 p.
Reply from Ludwig Glauert to Harold Rowe of Claymore. The growth on the Sheoak is an abnormality, the cause of which is not yet understood. It is the malformation of a branch caused either by a fungus disease or by a scale insect of some kind. 27/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to F. Bradshaw of Tambellup from A. Foley of Wodenbillup via Kulikup. Reports on: -Seagull eggs collected on Wilsons Inlet. Sighting of a bandicoot sitting under a Zamia Palm. Honey eater birds particularly the Brown Honey eater (Stigmatops) attracted to the Marri blossom. Sightings of bats, dalgytes, squirrels, anteaters, opossums and rat kangaroos. Has eggs of the Western Whistler, the Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufa), the Painted Quail (Turnix varia), the Spotted Nightjar (Eurostopus argus) and the Boobook Owl (Ninox boobook). 14/02/1928. 2 p.
Letter to A. Foley of Wodenbillup via Kulikup from Ludwig Glauert. Mr Bradshaw has forwarded your letter of 14 Feb. The Museum would appreciate any specimens. 22/03/1928. 1 p.
Reply from A. Foley of Wodenbillup via Kulikup to Ludwig Glauert. If I secure any specimens of interest, I will forward them to you. 03/04/1928. 1 p.
Letter from E. Nagel, Albany to Ludwig Glauert. Please identify a large red ant with wings. 04/04/1928. 1 p.
Reply to E. Nagel, Albany from Ludwig Glauert. The specimen is a Bull Ant - Myrmecia vindex, a species widely distributed in the Southwest. 10/04/1928. 1 p.
Letter from C. Rex. Clegg Badgebup, East Katanning to Ludwig Glauert. Please identify a skull found on our property. Could not find the lower jaw. 03/04/1928. 1 p.
Reply to C. Rex. from Ludwig Glauert. The skull found on your property is a malformed skull of a rabbit. The tusks are the two median incisors teeth that have developed due to a defective lower jaw. 10/04/1928. 1 p.
Letter to T.H. Hall, Tenterden from Ludwig Glauert. Some years ago you presented this museum with some South American specimens. This included an Opossum which Mr Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum named Notodelphys halli. Mr Thomas is seeking further information. 24/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to T.H. Hall, Tenterden from Ludwig Glauert. Thank you for the information regarding the South American Opossum. I will forward this to Mr Thomas. 12/04/1928. 1 p.
Letter to C.F.H. Jenkins, Seabrook via Northam from Ludwig Glauert. The beetles you sent were Dermestids and are related to the introduced Bacon Beetle Dermestes. Please continue with your experiments. 27/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter to C.F.H. Jenkins, Seabrook via Northam from Ludwig Glauert Your letter and specimens of 18 April are to hand. I was interested in the additional notes. 27/03/1928. 1 p.
Letter from R.T. Wellstead, Gnowangerup to Ludwig Glauert. Further to your article: Life in Pools and Puddles, Western Mail 10/05/1928. At Ravensthorpe during the copper boom, water in the Elverton mine which was heavily charged with salt and sulphuric acid, was pumped up and ran down the hill into a creek which only ran during the rainy season. 1896 in Balladonia, on the Norseman-Eyre line, were large dry rock holes that filled when it rained. When they filled, stingray shaped shrimps (beetles?) emerged about the size of a shilling, slightly oval with a thread like tail, brown on top and dark. The Shield Shrimp mentioned in your article reminds me of these creatures. 10/05/1928. 2 p.
Letter from R.T. Wellstead Gnowangerup to Ludwig Glauert. Referring to my letter to you, I am sorry that you misunderstood my meaning. I was pleading for better protection for the Outback. The Stirling Ranges would be an ideal sanctuary. 19/02/1928. 1p.
Letter from R. Cathew, Broad Arrow to Ludwig Glauert. I am sending specimens from a nest that I believe to be of honey ants. Please confirm. 05/1928. 3 p.
Reply to R. Cathew, Broad Arrow from Ludwig Glauert. The nest you describe was that of the Honey Ant. No specimens survived in the soil sample you sent. 26/05/1928. 1 p.
Letter from S.A. Mahood, The Murchison Times Company, Cue to Ludwig Glauert. Sending a specimen of a spider which bit a young man on the arm and caused severe pain for several days. Please identify. 30/05/1928. 1 p.
Reply to S.A. Mahood from Ludwig Glauert. Very little is known about the spiders of the West and your specimen was damaged. I was not able to identify the specimen. 08/06/1928. 1 p.
Letter from F. Irving, Bonshaw, Kojonup to Ludwig Glauert. I heard you were interested in specimens of pouched mice. I see these and would be happy to send you some. 09/06/1928. 1 p.
Reply to F. Irving from Ludwig Glauert. Thank you for your offer to forward specimens. We are also seeking larger animals such as numbats or banded anteaters and Boodie Rats and other members of the kangaroo family. 09/06/1928. 1 p.
Letter from T. Sims, Chorkerup to Ludwig Glauert. Please identify what we call "volcanic bombs" gathered on my property. 10/06/1928, 1 p.
Reply to T. Sims from Ludwig Glauert. The "volcanic bombs" gathered on your property are hollow ironstone nodules or concretions. They are not volcanic in origin but have formed in the rock after deposition. 14/06/1928. 1 p.
Letter from T. Sykes of Pithara to Ludwig Glauert. Please identify bird specimen. 14/06/1928. 1 p.
Reply to T. Sykes from Ludwig Glauert. The specimen you forwarded is the head of a Barn Owl, Tyto alba. 20/06/1928. 1 p.
Letter to R.S. Stubbs, Southern Cross from Ludwig Glauert. In reply to your letter of the 14th, the notes in the West Australian accompanying a picture of a Mallee Fowl, wrongly called a Scrub Turkey, were incorrect if they stated that only one egg is laid. Large nests contain quite a number of eggs. I am interested to hear that you have found a complete nest in the Southern Cross District. Please send me two copies of the photograph. 22/06/1928. 1 p.

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