Western Australian Museum

[Re: Information about Museum specimens]

Author: Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne, 1877-1951; Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916; Gould, John, 1804-1881; Mjoberg, Eric, 1882-1938

Year: 02/12/1915

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Letter from A. S. H. Le Souef, Director, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney.Please provide particulars of the Opossums in your collection found in the North West, indicating length of body and tail and colour -

in particular details of white marks.Please provide information about northern limits of distribution.In August 1911 Mr Woodward loaned me skins from Gracefield, Canbellup, Waneroo and Yallingup, some of which showed variations from the normal.Please provide particulars of the Phalanger (Petaurus) reported by Gould in the Northern Territory and later in the Kimberley but others including Mjoberg were unable to find. A skin for comparison with the Eastern variety would be appreciated.

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Letter to A.S. Le Souef, Zoological Gardens Sydney from Bernard Woodward.Glad to hear that he is writing a monograph on the Australian Phalangers.Is sending specimens form the Reserve Collection by steamer. Would like them back

no later than December next.Hand written annotation: Do you want any of the NM and N skins for the nine sent are all from the SW.List of skins of Phalangers sent:-9037 Male Wanneroo.8828 Female Gracefield.10070 Female Gracefield.8861 Male Campbell River.10068 Male Gracefield.8863 Male Campbell River.7270 Female Yallingup.9036 Male Wanneroo.8826 Male Gracefield.Skulls with all except 7270.

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Letter from A.S. Le Souef, Zoological Gardens, Sydney to Bernard Woodward re: Opossum skins.I am getting together a paper on the subject and full data of the skins you were kind enough to send, will be published therein. The principal

thing I noticed about the WA skins, is the great variation and their small size. The variation is probably not

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Letter from A.S. Le Souef, Zoological Gardens, Sydney to Bernard Woodward re: Opossum skins.Thanks for lending Oposum skins from your state. These will be valuable references for the work I have in hand and will be fully acknowleged

should anything come of the project.

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Letter to A.S. Le Souef, Zoological Gardens, Sydney from Bernard Woodward re: Opossum skins.Advising that the Opossum skins came safely to hand this morning but no letter.Would like comments on the skins lent.Congratulations on

getting a site on the Harbour for your gardens.

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[Re: Request for seal skulls]

Author: Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne, 1877-1951; Alexander, Wilfrid Backhouse, 1885-1965

Year: 08/04/1924

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Letter from Ludwig Glauert to Albert Le Souef.In reply to your letter of the 31 March, I am not able to help as our collection of local seals is small.We have Eumetopias albicollis from Esperance and from an island a few miles north

of Fremantle as well as a skull without data.We have a single Ogmorbinus leptonyx from Busselton.We have no local examples of Arctocephalus cinerea.The identifications were checked by Mr Alexander some years ago.If you send me the draft of your book, I will examine our specimens and compare.

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Letter from Albert Le Souef, Raraku, Mossman, Sydney to Ludwig Glauert.Le Souef is writing up new data re: habits and life history of seals and wishes to give a resume of all species in Australian waters.Wishes a loan of the skull

of the fur seal of the Australian Bite (sic), which he presumes is Arctocephalus forsteri.Wishes to make sure by examination and would like to compare it with the skull of an animal from New Zealand.The common fur seal of the east coast is thought to be Otaria conerea and the hair seal from Kangaroo Island to the Abrolhos is Zalophus lobatus.

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A new tree-kangaroo from south-eastern Papua

Author: Troughton, Ellis, 1893-1974; Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne, 1877-1951

Call no: RP338

Year: 1936

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