Biology:The Western Australian Naturalist

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The Western Australian Naturalist  
|Subject |Discipline}}Biology
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1939–present
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4West. Aust. Nat.
Indexing
ISSN0508-4865
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The Western Australian Naturalist (also known as the Naturalist), is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Western Australian Naturalists' Club. It publishes original research on topics related to the natural history of Western Australia.

It was established in 1947.[1][2]

Similar publications emanated from groups that were established in other Australian states, the South Australian being a part of the Royal Society in that state[3] and the Victorian publication was established as early as the 1880s.[4]

The editor from 1947 to 1980 was Dom Serventy.

At times the publication and contents of the issues of the Naturalist were noted in the local newspaper The West Australian.[5]

The history of the club was first published in the Naturalist in 1964[6] and subsequently expanded and published separately at a later date.[7]

George Seddon in his work Sense of Place wrote:[8]

there are three good local inexpensive journals that should be in every school and public library: The Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society and The Western Australian Naturalist [...].

The Naturalist was the location of:

  • the original description of the short necked tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina
  • the details of the rediscovery of the noisy scrub bird Atrichornis clamosus
  • the further description and habits of the frog Myobatrachus gouldii
  • the further elaborations of the behaviours of the giant ghost bat Macroderma gigas

At various stages offprints have been made of articles on subjects that had not had publication elsewhere,[9][10][11] or items from The Naturalist have been included in compiled volumes.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Western Australian Naturalists' Club (1947), The Western Australian naturalist, Western Australian Naturalists' Club, ISSN 0508-4865 
  2. ↑ "NATURE STUDY". The West Australian (Western Australia) 63 (19,036): p. 6 (SECOND EDITION.). 19 July 1947. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46327112. 
  3. ↑ Field Naturalists Society of South Australia; Royal Society of South Australia. Field Naturalists' Section; South Australian Aquarium Society (1900), "South Australian Naturalist : journal of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia. Vol.14 no.1 - vol.24 no. 4, Nov. 1932 - 1st April 1948", South Australian Naturalist (Adelaide), ISSN 0038-2965 
  4. ↑ Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria; American Museum of Natural History Library (1884), The Victorian naturalist, [Melbourne] Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2812559, retrieved 2 January 2017 
  5. ↑ "W.A. Naturalist". The West Australian (Western Australia) 66 (19,829): p. 19. 4 February 1950. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47827318. 
  6. ↑ "n.t.". Western Australian Naturalist 9 (6): 121–152. 1964.  [author missing][title missing]
  7. ↑ Erickson, Rica; Kingston, Dorothy. Record of club activities from 1975 to 1984 (1984), History of the Western Australian Naturalists' Club 1924-1984, s.n, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17325153, retrieved 5 January 2017 
  8. ↑ Seddon, George , Wikidata Q7450995
  9. ↑ De Graaf, M. (Mark) (1967), The manufacture of spinifex gum by desert Aborigines, Western Australian Naturalists' Club?], (General Printing Division of West Australian Newspapers), http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19100446, retrieved 5 January 2017  - "Reprinted from the Western Australian naturalist, v. 10, no. 5, May 16, 1967".
  10. ↑ Lindgren, Eric (1966), Natural history notes from Jigalong, Northwestern Australia, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/210593221, retrieved 5 January 2017  - West Australian Naturalist, v.7, no.5, 1960; 122128; no.8, 1961; 195-201 -- illus.
  11. ↑ Aldrich, Fred; Chittleborough, R. G., 1927-; Western Australian Naturalists' Club (1967), Observations by the late F. Aldrich on Australian marine crayfish in captivity, Western Australian Naturalists' Club, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28249127, retrieved 5 January 2017  - "Reprinted from "The Western Australian naturalist," Vol. 10, No. 7, November 7, 1967; pp. 162-168"
  12. ↑ Coppleson, V. M. (Victor M.); Campbell, G.D; Davies, David H; Gilbert, Perry W; Hutton, Robert F; McCulloch, Allan R. (Allan Riverstone), 1885-1925; Australasian Medical Congress (British Medical Association) ((7th : 1950 : Brisbane, Qld.)); Pacific Science Congress ((10th : 1961 : Honolulu, Hawaii)) et al. (1927), [Collection relating to shark attacks in Australian and international waters, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/189693323, retrieved 5 January 2017 



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